These are the 1st 20 lectures of this extremely large tape set(84 cassettes in the Clearsound version).1st ACC - 01

LOOKING, DEFINITION OF STATIC

A lecture given on 6 October 1953

Well, here we have, today, the first meeting of this group.

This group, by the way, consists of a little - little bitmore than a third of the first group I trained in GreatBritain. There were thirty-six applicants on this group andwe really whittled them down - had to - to a very marked degree.

We have here, today, certain purposes that we have to getclarified and certain data to be handed out and to get somesort of an idea and orientation of what we're doing.

Now, we have quite a job ahead of us. Very definitely oneof the first goals of this group will be, in the first twoand a half weeks, a good, high operating level of everyindividual in it. Now, that means - as I look aroundhere - that means several - several cases will have to bebusted sky-wide and handsome.

Well now, I will do what I can to take the rough edges offof those cases, and so on. But if we devote ourselves herefor about two weeks or two and a half weeks to bringingeverybody up to a good level of case; it will be paid for,in the long run, by very rapid assimilation of two weeksfrom now on.

We have an awful lot of work in the field of theory. And Ihope that we'll get over, in this group, the fact thattheory and practice don't happen to be separate. They'vealways been separate in other fields and too often it issaid throughout the country, "Well, that's theory and whatI'm interested in is making something work." I mean, it'slike somebody saying, "Well, now that's an automobile," andhe goes off and sits on a park bench in order to drivesomeplace.

You wonder why these people fall down as auditors. Theyfall down as auditors because they can't anticipate orpredict the occurrence within the preclear because theydon't know exactly what the preclear is working on. And ifthey're well braced in theory, they know exactly what thepreclear is working on. Not because they look or anythingof the sort. It's just they - they just know what this fellow is doing.

And all life looks very complex to this preclear and itdoesn't look complex to the auditor. That is thedifference. To a good auditor life does not look complex.It looks, actually, rather impatiently simple. Andsometimes you have to sit down and think for a long timejust exactly why life seems so complicated to some people.

And sometimes you have to go further than that. Sometimesyou not only have to think for a long time; sometimes youjust never find out according to their lights. You canstate it in simple, workable terms which will predict theirbehavior. But for the life of you, to see how somebody cameby this concatenation of logic - it's almost impossible. It's fabulous.

Well, now we're not just training auditors, I hope. That'ssomething we can do and should be able to do a lot morethan that. If one just started out on the basis of trainingauditors, one technique which I could give you as a groupwould break you out of any obsession of auditing. And Icould probably run and slant techniques so that - oh,undoubtedly this - I could slant techniques so that a guywouldn't ever look at another preclear. That would beslanted techniques.

Well, it's interesting that in the last congress here we had a lot of techniques handed out. They were pretty routine and so forth. Actually, the simplest techniques were not given atthat congress, as simple as those techniques look.

[Editorts Note: The First International Congress of Dianeticists and Scientologists, held September 30 throughOctober 4, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.]

There is a simplicity level of Q and A which I don't thinkthose people will fall over. It's just too idioticallysimple. I'm going to tell you this technique right now.And you're going to find yourself asking these questions anawful lot of times.

"Where is the past?" That's the question. The environment.It's asked out in the environment near the preclear. Aformation of nothing or something or whatever it is - youdon't care. You just want something out in front of himsaying, "Where is the past?" And you want that then turnedaround and placed on or within his body as "Here is thepast." "Where is the future?" And you just want that turnedaround then and placed within his body, "Here is the future."

And you'll find out immediately - it's really too silly -you'll find out immediately that he's trying to bring in the past and bring in the future, which accounts for hiscondensation in a body.

Now, this technique is quite idiotic because all in abreath we wipe out Freudian psychoanalysis; understand it,digest it and throw it away. Just like that!

And you find out this fellow's, when trying to say, "Whereis the future?" he has always understood that the futurehad a location and that the past had a location. And inbaffled contemplation of no location, he's of courseassumed both of them and put them in his body. And here weget the condensation of looking which makes a body. Thisone you handle lightly, around, as long as a person isinteriorized. Because there's no reason to knock apart thebody; people recognize him by the body. But where a personis very savagely holding on to a body or holding on toblackness, he's simply doing this trick, that's all: "Whereis the past? Where is the future?" And of course, he'sbringing in these long-distant anchor points, he thinks,and this condenses him.

Now, in everything we're doing, there's a motto runningthrough here and you've heard that motto, it's "Look, don'tthink; look, don't think." Now, that motto becomes veryexplainable when you find out you can't look at the pastand you can't look at the future if you are right here inthe present. See? So if you can't look at the past and lookat the future, then you find yourself very indistinct withregard to how to look at them. So, of course, you have tothink about them.

And the other motto - and these mottoes, by the way, I'llprobably have made into a couple of small - like theseoffice door signs, these white and black office door signs.I'll have a whole stack of them made and I'll put them ineach auditing room because you may think these things aresomething you will remember all the time, but it's possiblybetter to have them around.

And the other is "Looking" - pardon me - "Feeling is acondensation of looking," and "Thinking is a condensationof feeling," and you got it. You don't see how thiscollapses the anchor points.

Now, the apathy on the case consists of this and nothingbut this, is "I'll never get it back," which is, of course,"I'll never get it in," which is, of course, "Where is thefuture? Where is the past? Where is the future?" You seehow it is? "I'll never get it back."

And you find fellows are tugging and hauling all over theuniverse trying to get something back and then they go intoapathy about getting it back. And although they leave theanchor point out there, thus being made to feel - the emotionon this is ridiculousness - and so they feel like they are no better off than to be human. And they've got these anchorpoints stretched out all over the place and other peoplehave got their anchor points and they've gone into apathynow and they'll never get it back.

Well, forgetting is an extension away from them of anchorpoints. Forgetting is an extension away from them ofanchor points. A memory is something you can't get back.Remembering is quite often something pushed in. So peopletalk continually about betrayal but never talk about ridicule.

And the act of ridicule is having an anchor point held wayout from you. So, of course, a person has forgotten theridicule and he remembers the betrayal. Betrayal is thesmashed-in anchor point. Betrayal is something you havegotten back from the past. But, of course, it's all youcould get back from the past, if you didn't haveScientology. The only thing you could get back would bebetrayal, because that complements the action of gettingsomething back. So the effort of getting something backamounts to the pileup in front of a man's face, which isoften quite black, and that is betrayal.

So he piles up burned-out anchor points in front of hisface because he can't get anything else back. He doesn'twant to give live electrical - oh - really simple anchorpoints, in there, because he knows these things hurt. So hesubstitutes for this and he has black anchor points whichhe brings in. And that is your very, very rough, rough,rough case.

Now, I don't care what computation you put on this case.Let's just go back, move out of the field of computationand we'll find out that feeling is a condensation oflooking and thinking is a condensation of feeling. So hethinks mainly about betrayal if he's low on the scale.

Now, it's pretty hard for a Step I to recognize - as Ifound out the past few years - to recognize what on earthis a "V" [Step V]. Very interesting. And not too long ago, I found out that I myself could turn on all the manifestations of a V. Not by mocking them up but actually turn them on and turn them off again without too much trouble. And that wassimply by "What is the significance of the explosion?" Andthis is the suppression of white, which is reading.

[See SOP 8. A "V" refers to somebody who was capable ofrunning Step V but not the lower more advanced steps.Also called a "Black V" because they would get blacknessinstead of pictures or mockups.]

So everybody's bringing in the blackness off the printedpage and saying to themselves, "What is this thing?" Well,again we're into thinking and this is a condensation offeeling. So a person who has been doing an awful lot ofreading eventually thinks he has no further emotion becausethe book is always a fixed distance from his face; themotion picture is always a fixed distance from his face.

And so we find people, by the way, uniformly take the samepositions in depth in the theater. They choose their seats- if permitted - and they will have a certain depth.Unless, of course, they're in good shape, at which timethey don't give a darn where they sit particularly. You getthe difference in that. But people who have got to havefirst row, got to have fifth row and so forth, you findthem expressing these preferences.

And if you were to find somebody walking into a theaterexpressing an enormous amount of preference all the waydown the line about a seat, you could just pick him up asan occluded case. And having picked him up as one, youcould just get the idea of the fixed distance of a stage ora fixed distance of a picture.

Well, now we see - now we get a good idea of what we'redoing. We're unfixing distances; unfixing old anchor points.

Well, all it requires to unfix old anchor points is simplybe quite able with new anchor points - which is why ThetaClearing works out so well and why it works so swiftly. Afellow all of a sudden finds that he doesn't have to have afixed position of a body, that he can sail around a bit.Immediately he gets a lot happier about this whole thing.He doesn't have to have a fixed anchor point, which is tosay a body. All right.

Let's look over that basic material as theory. You've got abook, then, in the hands of most of the preclears who areoccluded. I mean, they're just sitting there reading abook. All their facsimiles are reading a book. Whilethey're reading the book, the book tells them they aremoving all over the universe. Hm. Oh, no, they're not!They're sitting in a chair. The book tells them they'rebeing faced with sound, only they're not. The printed wordis silent. It's an entirely different codification.

They are under the impression that they are gettingmock-ups and admiration from the book. They are not. Oneday they'll suddenly stop mocking up admiration in thescenes and the scenes that they are reading about in books.And the day they do that, they just start to eat upon thosethey've already stored up. The next thing you know, youhave a complete energy starvation, but you have a fixedemotional state. There you are - fixed emotional state. Andyou'll find out this is what most preclears complain about.

Well, how do you settle this? How do you settle this? Well,there are a lot of ways to settle this. I'll give you adrill right offhand that isn't the best one but it's a veryinteresting one and one that I'd like to have you workwith. And that is to say you just take a chair and you havethe chair get apathy and then you have the chair in grief,then you have the chair - have the chair in anger and youhave the chair enthusiastic, until you can actually feelthese emotions coming out of this chair. You've got achair, then, doing a very - a very wonderful thing. And yourealize that you have been putting an awful lot of emotioninto the body.

Now, communication consists of a fixed system of looking- afixed system of looking. Sonic goes off in the bank beforevisio, long before visio, because it's fixed as a distance.And a distance in sound is infinitesimally small. Becausealthough one may reason that the point of sound is somedistance away, depth perception in sound is mainly depthdirection in sound. And what is actually making the eardrumvibrate is a little bunch of air. And the air vibrates upagainst the eardrum and the distance - fixed distance ofsound - is infinitesimally small, molecularly small. Sothis one can turn off in a preclear fairly young and fairlyearly.

But to regain it again, a little drill I gave you duringthe congress is quite adequate. You just keep up this little drill for a very short time and - pang! - on will comesomebody's sonic. There's no trick to sonic. You just snapyour fingers and ask the preclear if he heard that. And hesaid yes, he can recall that.

One girl, who was quite catatonic, by the way, I made intoa girl who could be effort-processed simply by coaching heron what effort was. She finally understood effort and whenshe understood effort - which is to say, when she couldreexperience it and turn on effort again - she practicallycleaned up the whole bank in an awful rush. She got soenthusiastic over what effort was that she was running itall over the place.

An effort would be the force or power or energy necessaryto move an anchor point. So as soon as we get into thebusiness of no force or power to move an anchor point, weget into a person who can't work or won't work because hecan't put out effort. So, automatically, somebody who won'twork, or can't work, is usually in pretty bad shape. That'sa good common denominator. Why? It's because he can't putout effort. But that is unintelligible to us. I mean,that's just another word. But we can understand with greatease "He can't move around anchor points."

You wouldn't want scholars to farm. They'd never moveanything around because they know everything is fixed. Theanchor points which they have are about eighteen inchesaway from them and remain there. And at the same time, evenwhile remaining there, yet move their minds all over theuniverse.

Now, let's take a kid and give him the idea of watching amotion picture. And this is a wonderful experience for anauditor because the kid starts to move promptly.

People frown at you if you move in the theater; you're notsupposed to move like this. That's why you put all the kidsway down in front because they really... On a Saturdayafternoon you'll find the first few rows of the theaterjammed with kids. And these kids are quite noisy. When theguns go off; the kids go off.

But you run this on an occluded preclear, you wouldn'tthink you'd get much response from it. But he can actuallyfeel the motion-picture screen trying to move him aroundand he can actually feel the book trying to move him aroundthe universe. And, of course, in order to - in order to readthe book, he's got to sit still. So every time it tells himto move, he sits still. It says move; he has to sit stillin order to keep on reading. And then, of course, thefuture is just slightly over to the right - that's the end ofthe book. And facsimiles are a page thick and they stack up.

In motion pictures the dimension of a mock-up is perfectlyflat. There's no three dimension because you're the samedistance from the screen. The same with television. Well,this is just an occasion of people being told they aremoving when they are not moving. See, people aren't movingbut they think they are moving.

Now, this is a wonderful thing. I suppose originally theyreally - they really do move - way back on the track.Entertainment, I guess, consisted of actually getting outand doing something, not sitting still and being movedartificially.

Well, the fixed feeling is that same unemotional feeling.Your ECT case - that's British: electroshock-therapy case,to take an example out of the field of psychiatry -complains, usually, about fixed emotions after just so many shocks. That's because somebody really fixed that anchor point but good and fixed them in their heads but good, and so on. Nobody could invent a better way to make somebody permanently unwell than to fix this anchor point, you see, with electricity.

Well now, there are a lot of other things you can find outfor yourself, one way or the other - you can find out inauditing. But these I've just given you are the clues andkeys to cases.

Now, I used to do this with preclears in 1947. They weren'tcalled preclears then; I just called them people. And Iused to - I used to work with these preclears in a very calmand a very certain way.

I used to say, 'All right. Now, we'll go over here andwe'll turn on this music box. Now we'll turn off the musicbox. Now, you hear the music box? Do you hear the musicbox? Can you hear it again?"

Work for a little while, "Yeah, I can hear the music box."

Turn on the phonograph. Turn on - drop books. That was thelast one I would go through, for some reason or other.

And I would show them face cards and have them see the facecards again. I would show them a flower and let them seethe flower again, and so on. The next thing you know thefellow had perception.

If you think the occluded case is very, very tough or it'supsetting and so on, just remember that it was being solvedin 1947 by a rather simple technique. You just kept at it.I don't care how long it took. You just kept drilling. Andyou never let the guy fail. You just didn't let him fail.You brought him up on a gradient scale of being able torecall so that he could then say, "Here is the past." Now,he had a new certainty: Here was the past. He had a pictureof the past and that's how life has answered it.

We don't need that today. What we do is cure his anxietyabout having to have the past. "Where is the past?" Well,he's got to say, "Here is the past." And then he could say,"I can't find the past." And he's practically done right atthat moment. "I can't find the past." Nothing is sillier.Time is the only aberration and it's not there. Okay.

You can't ever get an anchor point into time that willreally stick. You've got to keep putting it into time. Sothat you'll find old people will discuss their ills andyouth, and so forth, just endlessly, over and over, tryingto put enough anchor points into the past to have a past.Because they're really downhill from that. All right.

Well, regardless of all this theory - we're not worrying much about theory - I'm just giving you some kind of an inkling here on what we've got as working tools. These are some terrifically simple tools. As I say, in 1947 I could turn on perception. A little bit later it all had to be done more mechanically.

That mechanistic approach got too mechanistic and I wasn'ttaking enough of a breather to turn around and look againand find out it was too mechanistic. I wasn't auditingenough. I was doing a lot of other things. And it got awayfrom us at a heck of a flat-out proposition. I became moreand more puzzled and more and more puzzled, forgot many ofthe things which I myself did, and tried to find out what Iwas doing when I audited preclears. It was taking me a longtime to find that out.

But I'll tell you what it was. You know Q and A now - Q-and-AProcessing. When I sat in front of the preclear, I knew hewas going to get well. I spoke in an intensely certain toneof voice. He had no choice but to put it on.

Now, you have very, very, very wondering and puzzled, andso forth, auditors. They sit there and they say, "Well,Hubbard said it'd work. I don't know." "Let's-uh-go overit-let's go over that again, I guess. I guess that's thething to do." "How do you feel now?" "What are youthinking?" "What does that mean to you?" "Uh-how-howabout-uh-how about going over that again? Do you-would youmind that?" See, question mark, question mark, questionmark. The preclear had no choice but to put it on.

And so, it took not high-toned auditors, as we were tryingto say in Science of Survival, which often helped - weclassify this much better right now, and we can say that itmerely took a certain auditor. Not a certain person, but anauditor who was certain. That's all it took.

You've got to know that you know and then other people knowand they don't know why they are knowing. Well, we're notquite in that same boat here. I'm not going to ask you tosimply take what certainty I have and turn it around andput it on over there. But you've got to know what you'redoing works. And you've got to know how far you can go. Andyou've also got to know that you're not particularlyinterested in getting an effect from the preclear. Mostauditors get into this one way or the other. They want aneffect from a preclear and they want this effect so muchthat they're unable to operate without being told how wellthe preclear is.

Of course, a preclear will never tell you that well. Anauditor's acceptance level of the preclear is a sickpreclear. So the preclear, to go on being accepted, ofcourse, has to be sick. And you say, "Do you feel well,now?" And most preclears you audit, they will say,"Well-um-well, it probably does a lot of people a lot ofgood." You just got through curing something flaming onhim, see? "Well, it probably does a lot of people a lot ofgood. I don't know about myself. Undoubtedly, the - youprobably..."

You see, he's got to be doubtful. He can't be convinced. Ifhe's convinced, if he says, "Gee! I'm well! Boy, I reallyfeel good!" you don't accept him anymore. So he knowsthis. So to keep your attention, which is very nice, on thethings you've got, he has no choice but to do this.

So, where it comes to auditing, we have several things,then, that we must go into and look for. And there probablywill be a lot of personal coaching on this. And I hope youdon't think this is even close to an approach that I'mtreating you all like you're infants or something of thesort. There isn't anybody here who hasn't done an awful lotof auditing one way or the other, and so forth.

And if you don't mind my mentioning, though, aboutsomething that happens in aviation - in the old days a pilotused to fly by the seat of his pants. And if he got tocarrying his left wing a trifle low, he went right on. Helearned to carry his left wing how he did. If he learned -in the process of his learning, included several - he includedin that several slight errors, he would go on for thousandsof hours with these slight errors in his flying.

Well, undoubtedly every one of you has to some degree -slight or great undoubtedly has some tiny margin of improvement of auditing style. I wouldn't say the margin is large; I would say it's a small margin. It's probably a very tiny room for improvement.

And that's why I'll have to take each one of you personally(I hope you don't resent this happening to you) and justsit down with a phone on your ear while you audit apreclear and - I'm sorry if it'd be upsetting - and sort ofstraighten out - not what - your use of the technique; heavensno. I'm just trying to straighten out, just a little bit,your level of certainty toward the preclear.

Because if we can speed up your thinking about thinkingnesssufficiently, there'd be no further remedy needed, yousee. So I'm going to show you how fast it is to predict apreclear's reactions and where the preclear is going to gonext. And I think that it might help out if I just pressedhome the - not a patterned attitude - but the speed ofprediction and certainty of address without interferingwith your own basic personality. It can be done with greatease.

The attitude is based on certainty. And I want to teachyou, if I can, to read a preclear without even looking athis facsimiles or ridges. Just sit there and read like he'sa book; you know what he's going to say; you wish to Christhe'd run it, and still operate upon a level of restraintwhich doesn't permit you to say, "Well, go on. It's yourmother. Let's run her out." You know? All right.

Our general effort is going to be toward, first, the firstdynamic, and then second, toward theory, with particularstress on theory of investigation. Because as you learntheory of investigation, you will learn how to take apartpeople and life.

There are certain little basic rules which you usethat - very few of them really ever will appear in any bookwritten. Quite a little - little thumb guides. As I go overthem again they may seem sort of idiotic to me, but theywere the thumb guides that put all this on the road. Andthat's just to get us off auditing for a short time, abouttwo and a half weeks from now.

Then we will turn around and we'll pick up somedemonstration and experimental cases. And the first two ofthose - I don't know whether I'll get permission on this yet,but I have hopes to - are two blind children who are about to be shipped off to a home for the blind. They were bornblind. And yet, they evidently don't have anything wrongwith the eyesight but the medical profession says theydon't have any corneas.

Now, we're not going to dress up - I don't think, maybe wewill, I don't know - a MEST body. This is the roughest levelof case there is - not the occluded case, but the case wherethe GE's eyes are real blind. And the only reason we wouldtake on these two cases is to find out what we can do forthem, amongst us.

And then there will be other cases. I haven't any intentionof picking up cases which are successful cases - I mean,picking up cases which will lead to certain success. I haveno intention whatsoever. You can find all the easy casesyou want to. There are lots of easy cases around. Forinstance, there isn't a tough case in this room. I noticeimmediately several people might flinch at my statement ofthat and they base a lot of pride upon being a tough case.

Male voice: You answered it.

But I've even been breaking the cases of Spanish policeofficers - the final, final word of 1.5 - the final word.They're real solid. Like somebody said about anotherpreclear: They're solid black glass.

Well, all right. When we get quite a few of these casesthrough, we will go into considerable more material.Particularly, we should go into some of the material thatsurrounds group communication systems. All the way through,actually, we ought to go in through the Axioms. We shouldpick up some theory; after we've already gone over thesystems of theory, we should go with this other system.

We should know, at the time this course is finished, notthe Axioms by number - that would be kind of idiotic - but we should know them by definition. We should take them up and discuss them rather thoroughly. And having discussed them thoroughly, you should understand them rather thoroughly.

A lot of people are still floating around wondering whatrandomity is. And yet there's only - there happens to be onlyone nice, solid, calm explanation about why life operatesas life and why individuals become individuals and that'sjust randomity. So we've got to have a lot about randomityand see how it works, and so on.

Well, in a small group of this character, there can be lotsof questions. There can be a lot of internal instruction inthe group itself. There can be lots of questions to mepersonally and a lot of talking with me personally. And sothere shouldn't be anything about which you're foggy.

But I'll give you a word of warning. If some of thequestions that start popping up are too confoundedlyelementary, we won't go into twenty-four hours on bread andwater. We will go into twenty-four hours with our nosestuck in Book One or something of the sort. But you wouldbe absolutely amazed how widely and grandly this track hasgotten swept. We really, really have material to look at.

But still, if we can learn in this course how to think andwhen not to, and if we can get our speed up as a group,good and high, we will have accomplished that thing for theUnited States which was accomplished in Great Britain, onlywe'll have accomplished it better. Now, I went over toGreat Britain. I took a course that had been indoctrinatedon the HCA tapes, fairly well, and I took off from therestraight into Theta Clearing. And I went straight fromthere on to Theta Clearing.

As I say, I had a group much bigger than this one and yet Iwas able to give personal attention to everybody in thatgroup. I taught them for six weeks, all hours of the dayand night. And we had formal lectures. We had seminars. Andthat was not important - formal lectures and seminars. Thatwas beside the point. What we had was just continuousdemonstration and experience inside the group.

Well, right now Great Britain is undertaking such programsas wiping out asthma in the British Isles. They're just notdabbling in this. These boys - these boys are real mean.

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The British HAS is an immediate reflection on six weeks oftraining. That isn't an immediate reflection on me. It's animmediate determination of this original group of people inGreat Britain who decided that in this six weeks they weregoing to get an awful lot of auditing in and they weregoing to get an awful lot of studying in and they weregoing to ask all the questions they could think of and theywere going to get all the information they could possiblythink of and they were going to pull each other along oneway or another. And this more than anything else wasresponsible for what happened. But this crew in GreatBritain has reflected in a very, very fine British HAS.

Well, right now I suppose most of you are situated okay andwe can get underway and we are underway - and were at twoo'clock - and I hope that we can bust down any barriers wemay have - one, amongst ourselves or between me and thee orthee and me or anything of the sort and get a free-flowingline of communication, a bit of relaxation, get so we knoweach other and bring up our level of tolerance, perhaps, onmaybe some of my vastly terrible failings, because I havean awful time - I have a terrible time holding on toanchors - not anchor points. I don't have any trouble holding on to anchor points.

It's a rough deal with me sometimes, particularly sincethis last summer. It's been a long time that I've beenworking in Dianetics and Scientology. Ever since I wrappedthis up so that when a preclear came in and sat down and Isaid "bowwow" and he said "woof-woof" and a few otherthings happened in the thing and so on - the guy didn't havea chronic somatic and he was in good shape - I've beengetting awfully impatient about sort of sitting still.

Action is what is desirable, very definitely - either actionin terms of groups or action in terms of getting acivilization built. We might even go that far. I know thatsounds adventurous to you - getting a civilization built - because we'd only have - to work with we've got sodafountains and Coca-Cola and Ford cars. Well, it's prettyrough. I really don't see how you people can stand thislevel of crudity.

But anyway, our civilization could very well get itselfsomewhat shifted around, if just those of us who are herenow did a good job. Fantastic, but very true.

Now, as I say, I probably have numerous failings. One otherthing is I crowd time very badly. I know what I can do inten minutes and I know what somebody else ought to be ableto do in ten minutes and sometimes two ten minuteses willget overlapped and then try to occupy the same space. Now,I find out I can live on two time tracks at once, why can'tyou?

[Please note: At this point in the lecture a gap exists inthe original recording. We now rejoin the class where thelecture resumes.]

The processing I'm going to give you is not model GroupProcessing. My attitude, when it comes to a group made upof people in training is, I'm afraid - particularly withpeople as well trained as those present - apt to be a trifleon the side of "Well, it doesn't matter, because they canalways straighten it out." And I like to see a casefinished and squared away. But it doesn't particularlymatter, if we're processing in a group, if we ...

The point I'm making here is we use group techniques whichyou, as an individual, would never dream of using on a biggroup of people. If something happens here, we've got lotsof auditors.

If you see somebody walking around in a daze after thiskind of processing, and so forth, well, just bring him outof his daze.

These processes I give you as Group Processes under nocircumstances are, in a broad sense, Group Processes. Iwant you to understand that. I'm not giving you a modelnow, of Group Processing. This is highly specialized,limited just to auditors and groups of auditors that aregoing to be in contact with each other.

I'm going to give you an interesting process right nowknown as "Cycle of Action." Now, this process came out along time ago. I dreamed this up in order to get over thehump of start, change and stop. So here we go:

Get finishing an engram.

Running an engram; completely erasing it.

Get solving a case as an auditor.

Finishing a number of locks off on a case.

Get being a pleased preclear as a result.

Get being a pleased auditor.

Get having turned a preclear into an angel.

Get the feeling of beautiful accomplishment at havingcleared an entire group of people.

Get the cheerful feeling of having erased an entire chainof engrams as a preclear.

Having erased an entire chain of engrams as an auditor.

Get the pleasant feeling of having brought a preclear topresent time.

Having brought another preclear to present time.

The final feeling of having brought another preclear topresent time.

The pleasant feeling, again, as a preclear of having beenbrought to present time.

And again the final feeling as a preclear of having beenbrought to present time.

Now again, as a preclear, get the comfort of an enormousnumber of somatics.

Now get the comfort as an auditor of having turned on anenormous number of somatics.

Get startled belief on the part of the preclear.

Get startled belief as a preclear.

Now get other people being startled into belief aspreclears, by other people.

Now get everyone respecting you because you have been ableto change the society for the better.

Now get in front of you two people kneeling down, sayingthey've been wrong about you and Scientology.

Now get two people in front of you saying, "We're so sorrywe were wrong about you and Dianetics."

Two more people in front of you, looking in your direction,just winnowing away to nothing in absolute abject shame athaving ever questioned your sanity.

Two more people in front of you apologizing abjectly andfading away to nothing because they questioned your godliness.

Get two more people fading away because they have offendeda thetan.

Two more people withering away because they have given offense.

Get a temple falling down because it was set up by a rival.

Now get being nailed on a cross.

Now get being shot for loyalty.

Get a whole multitude withering away because it had nailedyou on a cross.

Get a whole mob of people being terribly sorry theyoffended you while you were alive, now that you're dead.

Get the beautiful feeling of having erased an engram.

Of having erased birth.

Of having erased birth in a preclear.

Of having erased the entire prenatal bank in a preclearincluding birth.

The beautiful finality, as a preclear, of having had theentire prenatal bank and birth erased.

The wonderful feeling of finally hitting the beginning ofthe time track.

The pleasant feeling of having erased all the grief from your case.

Of having erased all the grief from a pre clear's case.

Get somebody else feeling triumphant at having erasedsomebody else's grief.

Now get the pleasant feeling of having remedied and wipedout all your past misdeeds.

Now get the pleasant feeling of having suffered all thewrongs necessary to put you in the right.

Now get the beauty of having graduated from the MESTuniverse with the honors.

[end of lecture.]

1st ACC - 02

QUESTION AND ANSWER, STEP V

A lecture given on 7 October 1953

[Clearsound.]

I want to talk to you this morning about the processeswhich we will use in our course here. This isn't really acourse, but it's hard to find the right word sometimes.

The processes which I have been using and which I havefound to be highly efficacious are SOP 8, SOP 8-L and SixSteps to Better Beingness, Admiration Processing andExplosions.

I'll give you a very definite word of warning: One of theseprocesses is very dangerous and that's AdmirationProcessing. And although it is very dangerous, it istremendously effective. And because you have heard,possibly, tests run on Admiration Processing, I don't wantyou to shy off of it. It is, as far as I know, the best"open sesame" (if you're going to run anything on anybodyin the body) to a very bad-off case. Admiration Processingis a very interesting process and has a lot of variationsbut it is of the essence.

And you will find your very occluded case going over arolly coaster. They go up a little bit and down a littlebit and then up a little higher and then down a little bit.And it's a very slow process. And there isn't much of a wayto rush it up.

Now, you can think of fantastic methods of speeding it up,maybe. They just - it's just not true - let's get this straightright now: It's really - with all the investigation I havedone and tests that have been made, it is just not truethat there is a tiny little button somewhere in the case,which, if pushed, will suddenly turn a person into Clear.This just isn't true.

You will find yourselves, as auditors, rushing time oncases. And on rushing time you will find, inevitably,invariably, that you might as well have taken the time inthe first place. Don't rush time on a case. You just usethe process which you know will eventually work it out. Andlet the case go on and flounder and scream and fuss, and soforth. If you know what you're doing with the processes,for heaven's sakes, just continue with the process. Don'tlet, in other words, the hysteria of the case turn aroundinto an hysteria of auditing.

Psychiatry has done this for too many years. The psychoticis frantic and the psychiatrist gets frantic. This works,then, with any human being. This person is in a hurry;they're rushing time, crowding time; they can't get enoughon the time track, and so forth. So you, watching that, areliable to assume that you, being a body and a human being,should be the answer to it, which is the same amount ofhysteria or the same amount of time rush or the same amountof franticness. And this, in essence, is restimulationitself and is the mechanism of restimulation.

And by the way, going into that - why is Q and A - we'll takethis up several times, but I'll say it in processing, whydoes Q and A work? why does it work? Because it ties up,not into a specialized or a strange package; it ties upinto a very neat package - very, very neat, very precise.It's - I - first, "I will never get my anchor points back," andfirst, "I have to have my anchor points back." And then thevery occluded case is running the satisfaction of havinghis anchor points back. He's running the satisfaction ofhaving his anchor points back. Let's - let's don't miss thatone. He's running the satisfaction of having his anchorpoints back. According to him, he's completed a cycle ofaction.

Now, Q and A - Q and A is the question and answer, actually,on "How do I get my anchor points back?" That's about all.And that's what the Q and A is all about. Now, we can gointo that much more precisely and lengthily, but it goes - Q and A goes immediately into anchor points, instantly.

Now, every case has its own computation. Every case has itsown computation. You can work this computation out innumerous ways. The worst way is to evaluate for the caseand tell it what its computation is. Even though it'swritten all over the case, if you tell the case, it won'tdo the case any good.

So, you use techniques which blow the computation into viewfor the case. That's the neat one. You just use techniqueswhich all of a sudden make it totally self-revelatory. Thudidn't have anything to do with it, you see? Your preclearthought it all up himself and it does him some good.

Well, Acceptance Level Processing does this. You startrunning Acceptance Level Processing and you say, 'Allright, now let's put out..." You can do this in a snidesort of a way. (I very often do, by the way. It's badauditing.) You do it in a snide sort of a way. You say,"All right. Start offering up sick children and see to whomthey appear acceptable. Now, let's just have sick childrenand see who accepts sick children, sick children, sickchildren. Go on, let's see to whom they're acceptable."

All right. That's the wrong way to run it. The right way torun it is to say, "Go on, keep offering up these sickkids." The next thing you know, why, the preclear says, "Myparents! My grandma!" And the ally of the case is the oneto whom the sick child was acceptable. That's the mostvital button that you could possibly run. If you're goingto fool around with the past at all, that's going to beyour vital button: "To whom was a sick child acceptable?""To whom was a sick person acceptable?" And sure enough,you'll get the ally.

Now, "To whom was a combative child acceptable?" And yourun into the "don't fight" computation on the case.

"Just nobody." The preclear will just tell you, "Nobody. Nobody."

"Now, let's run a child that won't fight and find out whothat's acceptable to."

"Gee, that's acceptable to everybody. Gee. Gosh!" Butparticularly acceptable to somebody on the case and this isthe one - and this person, oddly enough - you learn this veryquickly: The noncombative child, completely noncombativechild, is most acceptable to the member of the family whocan't work. See how effort just jumps there; effortcrosses. The person to whom noncombativeness was essentialalso can't work.

Fighting requires effort and energy. And if fightingrequires effort and energy, work also requires effort andenergy. And the person who won't fight, won't work. Seethat? People substitute and often get mixed up on - theysubstitute anger for fighting. That fighting - anger is waydown Tone Scale from fighting. People who just get mad andflare up, see - they just won't fight, that's all. People who fight simply fight.

I told someone rather recently when they were throwing abunch of anger at me, one way or the other - they were beingvery, very hostile, and so forth - "Well, why are we doingthis now? I tell you what: I'll get - I'll send down to asporting goods store and we'll get some six-ounce glovesand we'll go a couple of rounds and then we'll feel better.But there's no reason to run me into a symbol like anger onthis thing, that's all."

And this person, being a girl, she couldn't quite figurethis, but that was in essence that - that's sensible. So,she's a girl; and that's too bad. She has to use - men hadtaught her - anger rather than blows, because her shouldershinge differently and she doesn't strike the same blow asthe man.

Women, by the way, very often go in for sword play, and soon, if permitted to do so (in the past) simply because thisis better than running in a symbol for it. By the way, inrunning this you occasionally find, way back on the track,the women being the combative characters - tremendouslycombative characters. And the fellow just can't understandhow he could be upset about women today, see? Because hehas never fought with women today. Women have never donehim any damage. That's way back on the track someplace, andso on.

Very often, as a little child, this is keyed in becauseolder sisters, something like that, will have a habit ofbeating a little kid up, and so forth, and he never quitegets over it. But the rest of the society tells him hecan't beat up women, so there is no interchange of effort.And you will find the interchange of effort as a - the vitalpoint at which you're striking because you've got torehabilitate the person's ability to run into effort.

Now, the reason I've been talking to you about it is so we can get into "What are we trying to do with thesetechniques?" Well, we could go over this with greatrapidity: We're trying to rehabilitate the preclear'sability to create, manufacture in any way, shape or form,use, direct, locate energy of the effort variety, see - energy of the effort variety. And we're trying torehabilitate his ability to admire broadly, and his bestability is admiration. That's his best ability. Effort isnot his best ability; effort is downscale from that.Because everything - all force dissolves in the face ofadmiration. I give you the universal solvent there: it'sadmiration.

So the two kinds of processing which are extremely basic,of course, are Explosions and Admiration. And if you gethung up on a case and it's sticky and it doesn'texteriorize, and when it exteriorizes it starts out andgoes spungingggg and goes back in again, you're up againsta proposition of insufficient admiration and an inabilityto create or handle effort, which is energy. This is awfulsimple; it's a mechanical problem. It is not a problem thathas anything to do with thought. It's strictly mechanical.

Now, if you want to hit somebody in the nose sometime andobserve him - just walk down here on the street, walk up to a guy and, slam, hit him in the nose. Now, if this fellow isfairly low on the Tone Scale, he'll stand and think aboutit. And then he'll talk about it. The fellow who is high onthe Tone Scale will simply slam you in the nose. He'll justreturn the motion, right now - pam! Simplicity. Very, verysimple.

Now, this business about "If he's low scale, how did he getlow scale?" Well, he's been slammed in the nose oftenenough and then told that he mustn't return the action. Allright, how is he told? Well, it's by being slammed in thenose the second he started to return the first slam in thenose. And then when he tried to return the second slam inthe nose, he got the third slam in the nose. And when hetried to return the first, second and third slam in thenose, somebody hit him with a sledgehammer. And after thathe thinks!

Parents are always standing around saying to little Willy,"Now, you must think before you act. You should thinkthings over. You shouldn't be compulsive, and so forth."Well, why don't they just take him out and chain him up toa post like an animal or something? Or just hang him? Itwould be kinder! Because the fellow who has to think beforehe acts, has to key in for himself a number of impacts, sothat he can think.

Now, feeling is condensed looking, and thinking is condensed feeling. And so you'll see what a circuit looks like.

Feeling is a fellow being hit with a tack hammer - hislookingness being hit with a tack hammer. If you can justenvision somebody standing there looking - that's a couple of beams going out and a couple of beams coming in, see -and you take these beams as they go out and they come in, and you take a tack hammer and you just knock them down alittle more condensed so they aren't quite as long but theyhave the same mass in them. He would start feeling ratherthan seeing.

Now, if you took this little condensed mass that youfinally left with the tack hammer and started hitting itwith a sledgehammer and really knocked it down realcondensed, and so forth, you'd get thinking. And that'swhat - would be what a circuit looked like in the essence.

Now, how do you get rid of this? This is obviously force,isn't it? The beams of perception are beams of force. Sohow do you get rid of this?

You have to uncondense thinkingness. And it isn't done bygetting the preclear to think. It could be done,theoretically, by getting him to feel. But it is best doneby getting him to look. Then if you - therefore, if you getthinking up to feeling, what have you done then? You - ifyou run it, in terms of engrams, the engram that's causinghim to think, see, will start causing him to feel. You turnon the somatic.

Now, if you'll notice in Effort Processing, if you run alot of effort, postulates come up. Now, it's true thatpostulates very high on the Tone Scale regulate this sortof thing and they're above effort. A person is free to makean independent postulate. And don't think - don't make thesame mistake that psychology did, saying that all thoughtis derived from aberration, all creative work is the resultof a neurosis, all sorts of things. A person is perfectlycompetent at doing this.

But their thinking freely gets interfered with and now herewe go. And we get this confounded cycle of impact and theimpact produces the thought. So certainty is impact to alow-scale preclear. And certainty is simply knowing to ahigh-scale preclear.

And this knowingness, however - this level of knowingnesscould be called a lot of things, but he just knows. Well,how's the best way to know? The best way to know is topervade. The most knowingness you could have would be acomplete pervasion. If you really want to know about thatwall and everything there is to know about the wall, thelast place you would go is to a scientific textbook becausethat would merely put into words somebody else's experiences. Oh boy, are we into a complex system of communication! Has very little validity.

But if you were able to pervade and be the wall, you wouldget every pattern it had. If you could do this very, verywell, you would get every kind of a pattern that couldpossibly come out of walls - molecular, chemical, and soon. You see, experiencing, which is to say, perceiving inits completeness an atom would be very superior to merelyknowing that this formation of structure existing in spacewas called an atom. And education very easily goes downscale to a point where it simply makes nomenclature.

Some of the more debased scientists are really in terriblecondition. When they can't do anything about a subject,they name it. And then they make everybody memorize allthese names and they say they know about the subject. Ohboy, that - you can't even argue with this; it's just beyondargument. Because this stuff is completely loony.

All right. So, on evaluation of techniques, then, the firstand foremost thing that we will try to remedy is looking.That way we'll get lookingness. And therefore, that tellsyou you've got to rehabilitate the number of viewpoints aperson has, see? He's got to have lots more viewpoints. Andevery one of these viewpoints have got to be able toadmire. Why has it got to be able to admire? That's so itcan dissolve any force that's standing in its road.

And the next thing you have to rehabilitate is force. Whatis called force, energy, effort - what do we mean by force?We mean an exerted, directed foot-pounds of push or pull.Brush off. See? This is force, see? Push out this way, pullin. Now, force can even be exerted in a balance, wherebyyou have the fellow - he's apparently in a static balance,and that is what, in the past, physicists have been callinga static.

Boy, that's just gorgeous. They said this word "static" andthen gave it a dictionary definition and then gave it thisother and then it merely meant forces in balance. That wastheir apathy about the fact that there could be no - aboutthe fact that they couldn't resolve force, so there alwayshad to be force. So, a physicist - if you're explaining it to him, you're just trying to say, "A static is so-and-so andso-and-so." No. No! No! He knows what a static is. A staticis a very interesting thing. It's... We haven't changedthis word, by the way, because it runs right straight intophysics. This is the one word that we have around which hasa double definition.

He says, "That wastebasket's a static."

"Why?"

"Well, it's not in motion," he says.

Well, that wastebasket is traveling one thousand miles anhour simply by virtue of being on the surface of the Earthwhich revolves twenty-four thousand miles in circumference,and it's twenty-four thousand miles, and it takestwenty-four hours to go around, more or less. That's athousand miles an hour the wastebasket is going in onedirection. And then there's seven other Earthly motionsthat make that wastebasket go. It is not even vaguely in abalance of forces. And in addition to that, internally, itis in a tremendous amount of motion. So we don't evenvaguely have a static. I mean, if a guy says static, itmeans something at rest.

Well, the only thing that could be something at rest...You just had to get down and figure this out. You get thesame definition for static as you get at zero: nowavelength, no motion, no mass, no position in time (quiteimportant) and no relationship to other objects, which isto say, no location in space. Now, that is zero. And thatwould be a static.

And sure enough, this really works out, by the way:Absolute zero has no resistance electrically. So you see,we weren't just reaching for the moon, see. We've justhad it right there. I mean, this is a proper physicaldefinition. We are not off the rails. We've reallydiscovered something brand-new to physics, although notbrand-new to the whole track, and that is the definition ofa static - what is a static.

Now, life itself is this nothingness only so far as thisuniverse is concerned and is not necessarily, in itself, anothingness. See, it can be a nothingness elsewhere. But inthis universe it's a nothingness. It has an ability inthis universe and so we get a paradox.

Well, what can it do in this universe? It can look; that'sthe best it can do. And it can reach and withdraw; it cangrasp and let go. With what? With force, effort, energy.That's - it can use this.

But what can it do about its excess force and energy? Itcan simply say it doesn't exist and it won't exist. Now,that's high-scale postulates. Or at the lower part of thescale, it simply has to have, just has to have, asufficient admiration and it goes whoooh! And all thesetons and tons of energy stored up - they just go.

Now, the big imponderable was "Where did thought go?" Youthought the thought and then it went someplace. That wasthe big imponderable. Well, that is an imponderable onlybrought about by a misconception on the part of physics ofspace. All space is new space; space is being manufacturedall the time - pampam-pam-pam-pam-pam-pam-pam-pam! Yourthetan can expand space and contract space. And he can putspace into, not the past, but he can just put it into otherspace. And this is - you see, he's manufacturing space thewhole time.

Space is - there isn't such a thing - well, a guy says,"There's space." And everybody has been able to look into a box - a shoe box or something - and he's seen that there's a space. He looks in this wastebasket and he sees there's aspace there, so he thinks that's a static space. My God,that space, as best as I can see here, is changing at therate of 1/c - just this terrific whir. Every tiny shift intheir relationship of the particles of perception, ofcourse, would bring about new space. You've just gotcontinuous new space. But this isn't just changing thepattern of space; it's just new space, that's all. Well,that's time. Time is actually space-space-space-space-space-space-space-space-space-space-space-space-space, and the last space is a different shape than the next to the last space.

And what is a particle of light? Is a particle of light,starting from the sun, the same particle of light whicharrives here? Now, this is an epistemological question.And for our purposes, nope: 1/c later - that's a very clumsyfraction, by the way; it's very puzzling. If you sit downand figure it out and scratch your head for a while, youget all confused. That's why I use it. There's thisinfinitesimal - you see, it's traveling at the speed oflight. Well, the speed of light is only relative to otherparticles. So if it is traveling at the speed of light,that's real great. That is - that's real great. It is.

All right. There isn't any reason why it even exists. Butyou get this manifestation and every 1/c in time -infinitesimal fraction of time - you've got a new particlesitting there. Therefore, you have a new space sittingthere because the space doesn't exist amongst theparticles; it's just a demarcation of space. And we're offinto the realms of epistemology.

But we can do this; we can do this. We don't have tounderstand this because it'll fall - all fall out in ourlaps. There's no reason to be upset about it, one way orthe other, or even get confused about it. Because actually,we could sit down and argue about this and argue and argueand argue about this. Because we're at a ceiling - we're atthe ceiling of our knowledge when we start talking aboutthe construction of MEST universe space. But boy, we'resure at a higher ceiling than they have been in the past,because they just figured, well, there was space see, andthat was it. That was just one chunk of space - which madethought impossible.

Thought, in its behavior - forgetting and remembering,thought, and so forth - would depend on continuousacquisition and disposal of anchor points. So that you'vegot new space, new space, new space, new space. You getyour new space and then make it old space; new space, oldspace. How does it become old space? Well, it just becomesold space because you say it's old space, that's all. Andit's still there. And all the energy deposits there are,are actually in present time. And this is the most horriblething for a person to discover. Because if he discoversthis with no further assistance or therapy, and so on,he'll jam his track instantly, of course. Because he'll lookaround and he'll see that all the thought he has is withhim. You get ridges and so on.

All right. What's a ridge? I'm not inviting you to pull allyour thought in. Because you see, after you've realizedit's there, you're liable to bring it in and take a look atit and inspect it and say, "Well, what do you know! I havethe past after all." And you're answering the question:Where is the past? Here is the past. Well, that's nonsensetoo. Because you don't have all the anchor points youalways had - not by a long ways. They've deteriorated.

If you don't believe this, try to go back in time andrecover your 1932 car or something. It just isn't thereanymore; it rotted away. So the anchor points have changed.You could find it today. You can find your 1932 car as itwas brand-new - in a facsimile. The facsimile is the answerto "Where is the past?"

Well, a fellow could get very upset about this if he didn'trealize this orienting schedule: Feeling is condensedlooking. Well, what's a ridge? What's a ridge? A ridge isjust condensed anchor points.

Well, what then is a beam of energy? Condensed anchorpoints. Why should you stay out of using energy, actually?Well, you don't have to, because you have to condenseanchor points, so that condenses space, in order to haveany energy. But you can still make beams of energy and usebeams of energy. There's nothing against this.

All right. What happens here when you get this fellow - thesecond he starts to put out a beam of energy he is sweptfrom one end to the other by a terrible feeling ofdegradation. What's this one? Because you will run into it.You coax this person to put out a beam of energy and theyput out a beam of energy - boy, do they feel degraded. Theenergy is too condensed. It's thick. It's like glue or soupor something.

Another thing is, is the body happens to be this type ofanchor point held together by life type of energy and youcan melt it. Let's imagine a man built out of woodenblocks. There's a man built out of wooden blocks. And thereare all the wooden blocks. Now, these wooden blocks thathe's built out of is this type of anchor point. It's aforce anchor point. It's a unit of force and has variouscapabilities.

Well now, let's assume these - this man has got these woodenblocks - this type of anchor point - glued together. What arethey glued together with? Glued together with a slightlydifferent type of anchor point. Now, if we'd take all theglue out of the man with wooden blocks - built out ofwooden blocks the wooden blocks will all fall apart, won'tthey? If you took all the life - anchor-point type of glueout of the human body, it would simply fall to pieces.Let's say the molecules of calcium and the molecules ofsilica, the molecules of this, the molecules of water, andso on - they would simply fall to pieces. So the body isglued together.

TBD

And if you want to make a test of this sometime - I willnever make a test of this in demonstration, but you canactually run it. It's very frightening because you canjust feel the body start to skid.

Male voice: The glue is a kind of affinity, isn't it?

Mm-hm. Exactly. So you get this - this body is heldtogether... What life has done is convinced" (quote)(unquote) the anchor points that they were all alike andhad certain functions and had an affinity one for another,whereas they don't. So you could actually, you might say,melt down the preclear. And we get to the next stage.

Now, this is different than simply making him vanish byusing up all the effort. This is different. You just melthim down, that's all. If you could turn on enoughadmiration on the bank, you would melt down your preclear,just like that. Take an awful long time, probably, and alot of strong admiration, and so on, but the net result ofit would be melting him down. That's what I'm trying to say.

And the only point I'm really trying to make all throughthis dissertation is that it's these anchor points heldtogether with another type of energy and affinity. They'rekept in communication over a thing called admiration - allthese admiration particles - what we're calling admirationparticles; that's the best designation for them, preclearto preclear. They're held together. They're in closeproximity and held there by condensed admiration, not bycondensed force. These are force particles held together bycondensed admiration.

That which is not admired tends to persist. So a guy keepspulling in these - admiration, and so forth, so as to staytogether. And if he doesn't make admiration easily, and soon, why, he'll really persist. Boy, will he be persistent.This comes under the heading of "indomitable will" and allkinds of other things.

But force can go a long way until it runs into that fatalthing called admiration. And if it ran into a smallquantity of admiration it would dissolve. Particles offorce only exist as beams of force because of cohesion fromadmiration. And so you admire them and you get space,because they come to pieces.

Now, let's take a little, little gadget here - a little tiny cube. And it's got eight anchor points. And this little tiny cube is all together. Well, what's holding it together? We'll say it's affinity. The expression inauditing for that is admiration. It's an energy. It's aparticle. All right, it's all held together very nicely.And boy is that a tight little cube, real tight! And youhold it up there. It's persisting - go on and on for a longtime. And you hold it up there and you say, "My, that'scertainly lovely." And what do we get? We get the expansivefeeling which people get in behavior when they - somebodytells them they have done a good job or something; they getan expansive feeling, see. Well, that's actually theselittle particles coming to pieces.

Why is it that the cells, bone structure and so on, of anold person are smaller than in a young person? Why is itthat people, as they get older; have smaller cells andsmaller tissue patterns, and so on, than they had when theywere younger? Why is this? The difference then between anold person and a young person is the size of the cell, andthis actually is in terms of micromillimeters, it's a, you might say, a measurable size. It's distinctly different. What is this?

It's just the same thing. A little tiny cube: eight forceparticles. All right. That's a basic unit of mass: eightforce particles. And these eight force particles are lessadmired and less admired and they're just tighter together.This person, throughout his life, has run into lessadmiration than he thought he should encounter and heshrunk. You see, so you get a tightening-together processin the face of nonadmiration.

Tells you that you possibly, theoretically, could monitorhow much mass there was in something by monitoring andactually denying it admiration; then you'd get more mass init. I suppose if everybody hates the atom bomb enough, itwill really get condensed. You'd probably get much betteratom bombs.

But we're not going out on that we monitor the physicaluniverse with such great ease; it's a big universe. All right.

Now, I'm not being theoretical, oddly enough. I'm beingintensely practical when I'm telling you this. Becauseevery preclear who's having trouble with his case, if youasked him, would have this as a common denominator, amongstall such preclears: "It's too tight." He's in too close.His body feels too tight. Things are too close up to him.See? The second that somebody complains to you about thefact he has a constriction in his left knee and the tendonsof his left leg are insufficiently long, you can just counton the fact that there is in suspense, in that area, forceparticles which are cohesed too tightly. There's beenadmiration there that was not refortified. Postulatewise,there's an expectancy of further admiration. And the thingwas constructed on this basis: "I get admiration for this,therefore I can expect further admiration about this."

So it's built on so much quantity of admiration per unit oftendon. That was its design. That was the design of thesomatic, if you please. "I get admiration for this and Iwill then, of course, be able to expect this muchadmiration for this." Then he doesn't get it. And so,having been built on that postulate or expectancy, he getsa constriction of the force particles and it gets worse.See, it gets tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter.It's horrible that a child who has had tremendousquantities of admiration when very young, builds on thatbasis and then finds out what is admired, what's accepted,what's appreciated - orients itself completely on this - andthen later on finds out that these qualities are not admired.

Now, all of this is built on the basis that one has toreceive everything from the exterior. And the interioradmiration is all that's going to do it any good in thefirst place. The fact that he was admired in the firstplace simply restimulates what admiration he is able towhip up, see? We aren't dealing now with an interchange ofenergy from exterior to interior.

And so, when he sees that this is no longer admired hestops admiring it. But you'll find everybody making somesort of a feeble effort to admire something enough whenthey start going by the boards. They do this feeble effort."Well, there wasn't anybody in the hospital as lame as Iwas." You see? They're trying to boost it up. It's still there.

This is the same computation as "How do I collect my pay?"Money is the accepted medium of admiration in this society.And the person, when he's paid, turns on, then, someadmiration for himself. He permits money to monitor hisown ability to create admiration. And if he isn't paid forsomething... You can just run this on some fellow. Youcan run this on a workman who is really bogged down and youcan get enough rebound just with this so he'll really goback to work. And you just run this "Now, let's get thefeeling of not being paid for the work you've done."

And the next thing you know, why, the guy says, "You know,that was real tough," and so on. And the beautiful sadnessof how he's been wronged, which the Communist Party lovesto turn on - how these people, and so on - turns on and therehe goes. He feels - it runs off and he feels better. He feelsfine. He gets a sufficient expansion of particles so thathe's - again feels it's safe to use force.

Now, the reason he feels it's impossible for him to useforce anymore is because he's already too tightly packedwith force and he's afraid that he won't get any admirationfor the force he does supply and so, if he doesn't get anyfurther admiration for the force he supplies, oh, brother!He's in terrible condition. He's just horrible. Real badoff. Because he'll have masses of energy, masses of ridgesand he won't be able to get rid of them.

Another thing is, it tails him in to a point wheretiredness is that blackness in the explosion and it ismerely a certain proximity of space.

All these emotions come about as a certain proximity or aflow characteristic of space - in space. And all thesethings tie together very neatly. So, on the one side of itthere, the fellow gets afraid of using force because hedoesn't think it'll be admired. And if it isn't admired,then it'll be stuck with it. So he can't blow things upanymore; it won't be admired. He's scared to!

There's an actual, practical reason, as far as the body isconcerned, why he'd better not use force. See, practical.This actually will happen to the body. If he uses too muchforce and it's not admired exteriorly, why, he'll be in badshape.

Well, what's wrong with the computation is that it has tobe admired exteriorly. That is what is wrong with thecomputation; and that is what is wrong with the mind; andthat is what is wrong with condensed looking; and that iswhat is wrong with feeling and thinking and so forth. Andthe only thing that's wrong with it is the feeling that theadmiration must come from exterior.

Now, it's never been admired that admiration must come fromthe exterior! See? So, there is your basic persistence.Nobody has ever admired the fact that somebody expectedadmiration. And so we take the problem apart on its ownbasis. See? And there's where the mind goes wrong. Andthat's all there is to it.

And the other one is, the guy is so scared of using forceof any kind that he'd rather wonder what the significanceof a relatively innocent black mass is than to look at abig white mass. No, those big white masses bite! They'refull of force. Those black masses, they're only laggardlypainful, and so forth.

Because you see something white, then afterwards you getbitten. See? There's nothing - flash! And then as theparticles fly through the air, fly through space - pam! -whatever mock-up you've got there to feel. And you werelooking at this thing, so what did you get? As you lookedat the whiteness, you've got condensed space.

See, you looked at the whiteness and it was a spreadingwhiteness and it came in your direction and so you expectedsome whiteness to come from the exterior. You didn'trealize the only reason you saw it is because you had aviewpoint up next to it. And you think that as it travelsthrough space that it's going to do this and it's going totake these viewpoints, you see, and it's going to drivethem all back and it's going to give you, perforce, anenergy beam; whether you like it or not, it's going to giveyou an energy beam.

You were looking at the explosion - let's say, you were alight-year away from the thing - and you looked at theexplosion, and you looked at it with a viewpoint. And ifyou looked at it with a viewpoint, then you got into thiskind of a silly situation, see? The viewpoint with whichyou looked at it was probably a point of mass and it gotdriven in and so you got condensed looking as a reasonfor. And there is your explosions. And there is your blackness.

The only blackness that anybody has got hanging aroundis - it's just reading; reading is a lock, see, on it. Just reading wouldn't do this; reading is just a lock on it.

Motion pictures, fixed distances, are just locks. Andthey're locks on what? They're locks on nothing but andnothing but, at all, the phoom! and condensation of anexplosion. See, the explosion characteristic. Allright - phoom! You've got condensed space. And as itcondenses, the fellow first starts feeling - feeling goodabout the explosion and then feeling damned hurt by theexplosion and then running an emotional and finally athought about the explosion. Now, you see how that thingcompares and how you get condensed looking out of explosions.

So you handle these two potent forces - these two potentthings, rather - and one is the force of energy and the otheris the force of admiration. You do this with AdmirationProcessing for admiration, but you're running explosionsin brackets for the other one. And that is about the limitof good, sensible mental processing.

Now, I gave you yesterday - gave you yesterday some classprocessing as a group. I didn't give you Group Processingas we do it.

The concepts I gave you came under the heading ofunderstanding. You see? They were concepts. And we wererunning these things as concepts. Now, they do things to acase. There is no doubt about this; you can get a change ofbehavior and all sorts of things on a case.

But you run these for a little while and then you, if youare not exteriorized - it's a different proposition if you'reexteriorized sitting down here, way across the line, orsomething of the sort, and you're a couple of miles awayand running this process. That's - it's very easy to do,because that's all a thetan does: change his mind. And aconcept - he runs it for a moment; he says, "That's silly,"and suddenly integrates it. It isn't that he runs anythingout or runs anything in; he just changes his mind. And theconcepts show him how to change his mind.

So you see, such processing is very beneficial to a thetanexteriorized; because that's the only process he's got.

But the other case, the very occluded case - I checked thisin the class yesterday, and so on. Some startling thingshappened for a moment, but there was no persistence in thestartling thing that happened for the moment.

So the fellow in the body - a fellow in the body - does notbenefit from Concept Processing. He has momentary changesbut in our terms of what we're doing, for heaven's sakes,don't think that a guy in a body is going to benefit fromConcept Processing! He's not! All you may succeed in doingwith him is just nailing him down tighter, because he keepsexpecting something to happen.

Now, the one thing that he's doing is "It must not happen."He's gotten to an interlock of "The explosion mustn't reachme" and "I mustn't reach the explosion" which issatisfactory to him. It's quite satisfactory, because itdoesn't hurt. But it mustn't happen again, or it mustn'thappen further, because if it did it will hurt, or he'lllose it.

And he's running, at the same time, the satisfaction ofhaving gotten his anchor points back; he's at least gottenthem back in facsimile form. He got them back, all right.The explosion drove them back. But by the time they gotback to him, they were black.

You will just have a dreadful time with this guy to get himto do this if you don't watch it very slippily: All you'vegot to do is to get him to look and he'll really exteriorize.

But he's got to have something run on him before, probably,he will go into this very, very far. He's got to havesomething run on him.

He's got to get, either by Admiration Processing or theprocessing of explosions, some sort of an idea that hisblack pattern can shift. Now, you can even do that withReach and Withdraw, Formula H, which you will have.

Now, there is an argument here. There's two schools ofthought possible at that point. And the other one is thatyou should never permit him anything that permits him todabble around with thinkingness. Never! Shouldn't do this.And I've had this reported by auditors, so I'm just warningyou.

The luck I've been having is I clip it with Explosions andclip it with Admiration Processing and then hit it with SixSteps to Better Beingness and away he'd go.

And when he was outside, I would immediately run Step I insuch a way to turn up his ability to manufactureadmiration - and then concentrate like mad on his ability to manufacture admiration. And then he finds out he candissolve unwanted force in his body and he'll regain hisperception. His perception is condensed by an absence ofadmiration and the feeling that he cannot admire.

Now, do you understand this occluded case a little bitbetter? We'll go over this many times, but I hope youunderstand this case a little bit better.

The thing for you to do is to get some reality on yourprocesses. That would be a very good thing for you to do, avery good thing.

And because I have been using them now for months and havehad very good luck - uniformly had good luck with thesetechniques that I'm telling you about - I don't think therewill be anything at all wrong with you just sitting down,if you wish, and just memorizing SOP 8, SOP 8-L and the SixSteps to Better Beingness. Why, they're just that rote.It's the same thing of how to drive a taxicab; how to cleara human being - same thing!

Gee, you know, SOP 8 has now been in existence forabout - actually, it's been in existence for about eightmonths; but to my satisfaction it's been in good shape forabout five months. And it's just been coasting along. Thisis an unheard of thing in Dianetics and Scientology,unheard of; it just goes on and on.

Now, the only way we're varying this is with SOP 8-L, whichtakes the occluded case at Level V and runs in Six Steps toBetter Beingness, Explosion and Admiration on him - pam! - and at Step IV puts in Acceptance Level Processing - justeducational. See, that's SOP 8-Learning - 8-L: learning. He'sgot to learn something about life before he's happy aboutdoing anything about it.

And you give him Acceptance Level Processing at Step W andhe says, "My God, that's true. I have to be a certain levelof sickness." All these things come through to him withgreat truth. "Holy God!" he says, "I would rather..." (Ifyou will excuse me, I'll be outspoken in this class,because you'll really run into things.) He says, "You know,that horse manure is much more acceptable to me than creampuffs!" He won't be able to understand this until all of asudden he sees that that's true. So, he says, "Well, allright, so it's true! So it is!" And then he remembers - thenhe remembers his dog being beaten, when he was a littlekid, for having eaten horse manure. And he's still beentrying to protect and defend the right of the dog to eathorse manure.

Well, this is what happens to your computations. I didn'tjust introduce that just to be risque' this morning. Iintroduced that as the climate of operation on AcceptanceLevel Processing. Boy, the stuff that is acceptable is thestuff that's been resisted. And we'll go over this cycle ofresistance and breakdown before we get through here, verymuch so.

When a man has resisted, resisted, resisted, resisted,resisted and all of a sudden - aahh - he isn't resisting somuch, you see, his level of look comes back in view of theresistance. And his level of look comes back again and thenhis level of think starts in on the resistance. And hislevel of think turns, then, to a level of accept. A manthat will think about something will accept it.

You go down here to a city official. You pull out a hundreddollar bill and say, "Well, I'd like something illegal."

"My dear sir, I will have you know I am a civil servant!Get the hell out of this office!" He didn't think about it,did he? But the next guy that you went in to see, he says,"Well, I don't know. That-that-that's - that's an awfullyadventurous step for me to take. It's - it's - it's veryillegal for me to falsify a car registration." He'll takeit. You see, he'll think about it. A man will accept whathe'll think about.

Only I don't say that just baldly, I just give you that asa practical demonstration of it. So you get people whoread books about perversions and so forth; they may neverhave practiced a perversion but they're right on theborderline. And you start to run Acceptance LevelProcessing on bad perversions and the most terrific reliefcomes over your preclear - huh-huu! And he'll finally say,"You know, that's probably - that's probably a terrible thingto do." He will suddenly wake up to this, you see? Hereverses the process. Now, how would you run AcceptanceLevel Processing to extend looking? Be a cute little trickis - wouldn't it? Run Acceptance Level Processing to extendlooking. Well, you keep putting out the things he'llaccept, making him get them further and further away from him.

So, you have disease. All right, now, the first time youstart to run disease, boy, it's right up on him, see? Andyou get him to accept disease - easier, easier, easier andall of a sudden he's going out. Now, that's the purpose ofthe bracket, more than anything else, is to get thosethings out there, see - put a person out there and get him to accept it. You're just extending his looking.

Now have two other people - one to the other - and you'reout there further, with more people doing it, remedyingmore scarcity of viewpoints there. Here he goes. Becauseanybody that runs his body doing anything is runninganother person doing it. Don't worry about life all beingtied up together. He's all tied up together with somethingthat isn't him already.

All right, then, how do you run Acceptance LevelProcessing? What variation? Or how do you run Explosions?You get them further and further away, and then you getthem tolerated closer and closer, and then further andfurther away. But remember, we've got distance andlocation with which we're working. We're working withdistance and location - distance and location, continually.

SOP 8 which you find in 16-G, SOP 8-L (and I've told youjust now what a variation it had) and Six Steps to BetterBeingness - these are the processes we're going to use. SOP8-L includes Admiration and Explosion.

The most important thing to do for a case is to rehabilitate his ability to admire and to handle force. If you can do this, he comes clean.

The least important things to do for the case, while he'sstill in the body, is change his mind; that's the leastimportant thing. If he's in his body and he can't get outeasily, you've got to make him look. Six Steps to BetterBeingness does that.

Now you touch it up a little bit with AdmirationProcessing, something like that, it'll vary his lookingpatterns slightly and he'll see that something can happeninteriorly.

But he's willing to run a concept and he's not willing torun a look, so you give him a little bit of concept andslide him out into looking as fast as possible.

And as far as an exteriorized thetan is concerned, all youdo with an exteriorized thetan is, in effect, run RisingScale concepts. You just get him to change his mindupwards. Get him to get into happier and happier andhappier shape about the same thing. See?

Now, those are the processes we're going to use here forsix weeks. And you're supposed to come up with an optimumGroup Process.

Let's take a break.

[end of lecture.]

1st ACC - 03

Tape number 654 onthe Flag Master List.

EXTERIORIZATION

A lecture given on 7 October 1953

Okay. This is the second hour of October 7th.

I want to give you kind of an insight on what not to use inthis course.

I don't want you to use matched terminals or doubleterminals, even in brackets, unless a person is verythoroughly and reliably exteriorized because they run downthe body potential and they exhaust energy. And you don'twant that happening.

The body potential is something that you can straighten outwith great ease when you can look at it. But straighteningit out by running concepts is very silly. I mean, it's justsilly. I just couldn't condemn this enough. It's very, verysilly. It's something like trying to fix a clock in WestChester by thinking about it in Poughkeepsie. You fix aclock in West Chester by taking a look at the clock in WestChester and I mean a look. You have that now? It's justsilly to think about something if there's a way to look atit. If you can't look at something, well, you have to thinkabout it. But if there's any way that it can be figured outwhereby you can look at it, you're on the ball. You'reright there on the beam.

That's why people think about time travel all the time.They want to go back in time and take a real look at it. Asit is, they take substitutes, facsimiles, mock-ups and so on.

All right. This is a simple and elementary problem. I don'twant you to use techniques which tear down the body residual mechanism - the operating mechanisms of the body - bythinking about them with gunshot techniques except whereyou have a momentary chronic somatic. Pardon me, amomentary return of chronic somatic or an acute somaticthat suddenly shows up.

The best way I know of to get rid of a burn is just throwyour... You burned your hand; all right, just put your handout there twice. That's all you do. If it's been badlyburned you'd probably have to keep putting it out there.Put your hand out there twice, the burn will run out - pam!Well, that's an emergency. That's an assist.

In the case of some preclear being terribly upset abouthaving had an argument with the landlady, you can actuallydischarge this argument with the landlady, while it'sfresh, simply by matched-terminaling her. Make her faceher, and it runs out. You see, that's another version of Qand A. That's why Q and A works. People are trying to getexact terminals one from the other so to make this flow.All right.

What other techniques shouldn't we fool around with here?Well, there isn't any very specific lineup. But youshouldn't run engrams, scan locks or fool around withold-time Effort Processing.

But this doesn't say that you shouldn't run a grief-chargesecondary if you encounter it. You might suddenly, withother things you're using, encounter a grief charge that'sright there and spilling. Run it.

How do you run a grief charge? Take him to the beginning ofthe moment when the incident first occurred. Firstintimation they had anything was occurring, you run itthrough to the end. All perceptions would be picked up. Andthen you go to the beginning and run it through to the endagain with all the perceptions that could be picked up. Andthen you go to the beginning and run it through to the endagain with all the perceptions that could be picked up. Andit comes on up the Tone Scale.

It's a fast process in that it does change people quitemarkedly because it's a process which applies to the GE. GEcould get his grief off; he'd be in beautiful shape,believe me. It's fantastic.

This goes way back on the track to a thing called,evidently, the Weeper - salt water. And for about half amillion years man was having a hell of a time trying torush into the waves long enough to get some food and rushback to get some air. And he didn't have anything withwhich to rush. And it was - and it was very frustrating. Sofrustration winds up in spilling salt water. He had acouple of little tubes and he pushed these out of the shelland he'd pump like mad trying to pump out all the saltwater. You run a preclear on this and it's just fabulous.

But you could actually turn on grief - you could run offgrief charges and so forth. You could run out thismechanism. But it's a necessary mechanism in the body. Ifyou go to start altering around very much the evolutionarypattern of a body - and you get a body in horrible condition.Because it's depending on these old past efforts and theseold adjudications and adjustments in terms of forceparticles and just that much admiration and it's just inthat degree here and there through the body. And it'sfantastic to me that the body resists the way it does andthat it is just - just wonderfully foolproof as a mechanism.It's really fabulous.

It's something I sometimes sit down and just - flabbergasted.I used to be - I used to be wondering about this on the basisof wrecks. A guy would go into a wreck or a blow-explosionor something. My God, they'd haul him out in horriblecondition, and so on - he'd live.

And one time I began to worry about it. Just thought aboutit a little bit. It was, of course, immediately after animpact. But I'd been thrown through the top of a car - clearthrough its top and a hundred feet down a mountainside.And the car had struck a huge tree which didn't budge aninch. Demolished the car. Went through the top of the car,went a hundred feet down the mountainside. The next thing Iknew - from the moment I saw the tree when I was sitting ahundred feet down the mountainside and I was just sittingthere. Didn't have a scratch on me. I either picked myselfup out of the car and sat myself down there where it wassafe or I did something peculiar.

Everybody else who was in the car - I wasn't driving -everybody else who was in the car was in a bad state of disrepair. But not me. And I should have been very - in a very bad state of disrepair. Not a scratch. Yet the top of the car - and the rest of them didn't go through the top - they were still in the car - but the top of the carwas utterly demolished. And if I were at this moment totake my fist and try to go through sheet steel, I'm sureI'd get a bruised knuckle. And yet I went through the topof that car and split steel. This human body is justfabulous in what it can take - only reason I'm mentioning that.

But that's no reason for us to find out how much it can take.

It's completely silly to process the body in terms of anindirect process when you can exteriorize the thetan andthe thetan can reach over and straighten out the exactmechanism in the body that's causing trouble. If a guy ishaving trouble with eyesight, wearing glasses and that sortof thing, for God's sakes don't - don't worry too much aboutrunning the GE, if you can get the boy out there and havehim just take his - a couple of little beams and streak themdown the optic nerve - the optic nerve - and take off allthe bumps. Smooth them all out and take off all the bumpsand throw away the little, tiny deposits of energy andstraighten them up. It's beautiful. He'll see beautifully.

Thetan knows how the body is built. You know how a body isbuilt. Only you don't admit that you know it, because ifyou knew that you knew how a body was built, you might getmad at it someday and take it all apart. And therefore, youhave to refrain from getting mad at it and you'd better notarm yourself with the knowledge that you know how a body isbuilt.

A thetan is cute. He parks his knowledge around in littlecaskets and little, tiny boxes. And a thetan when he firstexteriorizes, and so forth... Or the bad-off cases - theydon't exteriorize because they're really persisting. Thisbody is valuable; they have finally become something.They've become this body and they just don't want to leave.

Any one of your bad-off cases will shove off from the bodyif the body is extremely ill after a supremedisappointment. Guy is really sick, in bad shape and itlooks completely impossible to go on, why, the worst casethere is - can be - on his own final adjudication - "Well, it's all over. The hell with it. I can't go on any further." And he'll tell you some such phrase as "I could sit down andcry for ten thousand years." And he's really feeling realbad. All he does is just push himself out of the body, 100percent, go and sit down someplace. "Well, try again."That's the way he goes, this way.

The complete sham of a man being stuck in a body - completesham of it - becomes at once apparent to such a person. Hethinks he can't control a body from the exterior, so thereis no question of controlling the body that's shocked,sick, in horrible shape. He just backs out.

See how this is? See how simple? Actually, there's nothingsticking the thetan in the body - not a thing. There's nomechanism or anything else beside his - really - his own desire to stay there and his own anxiety that he must control it and his final realization that he is something, and so on.Well, when he drags out on such a circumstance, he findsout something terribly important: He's got little casketsand little boxes and all sorts of things hanging on himand he's got circuits all packed up this way and he's gottrapped thetans.

When we think of these horrible entities, and so forth,that the thetan curses so and a person says are so terribleand so forth - he trapped them. What are they doing? They'rethinking for him. He's a slave master. When he getsdemocratic his slave mastership has a tendency to weaken.When he gets out of the body he doesn't think anythingabout taking one of these poor critters and holding it outat arm's length, twisting it around, making it agonize alittle bit. It's amusing. He has no feeling about itbecause there's no retribution as far as they're concerned.He has a crew.

Very often people say they have demons, and so forth. Andhe'll come around to the auditor to get the auditor to freehim of one of these demons. Well, who the devil has got thedemon? He has. He's holding it solidly by the throat. Andevery once in a while you say to the guy who is terriblyimpatient about being cleared, and so forth, he says, "Ijust have these voices clamoring, clamoring, clamoring."

And you say, "Why don't you tell them to shut up?"

"All right. What do you know," he says. "They did!"

You say, "Of course."

Now, you have been prone to apply an indirect method, somehighly mechanical method, to making the body shut up. Justtell him to shut up.

Now, when he's out, when he's exteriorized, he actuallyfeels like a - he feels real sad at first. Then he gets tofeeling mischievous and he kind of feels like a mischievousghost. And all the chains he's carrying and old tin cansand bric-a-brac and everything else is just stuff he'scarrying around because they're anchor points he had once,and he has now facsimiles of these anchor points and he'smade other anchor points to replace them. And in additionto that, in little capsules, he's got in condensed form aterrific variety of brilliant mock-ups that he has stolenway back on the track. And you just try and take hismock-ups away from him, and oh, no! He won't even look at them.

He's saying, "They're real dull. They're real dim. Youcan't see them anyhow. And they don't exist, really, and Ihaven't got a thing to do with it. And I can't see these."

Once in a while a preclear - you'll startle one into this:He'll be sitting there, looking at this gorgeous man orsomething of the sort (you know, he's got a littlefacsimile of it), in a wildly colored jungle or somethingin this facsimile. He'll be looking at that - she'll belooking at that, usually. Smile from her.

"Whatcha looking at?"

"Nothing."

Only they'll explain it to you this way. They'llsay - they'll say, "I can't see it now. You interrupted meand it's dived out of sight." What they're running is "noresponsibility," which is no force. They don't want to haveenough force to destroy or enough admiration to destroythese precious mockups. Well, until they can make anothermock-up similar to it, they're going to hold on to thesethings.

Boy, you talk about moving day - it's when some of thesethetans start to move out of the body, brother. Well,they're not stuck to the body or anything. Once in a whilea thetan will move out and push himself against the MESTuniverse, and his beams are sufficiently condensed thatthey'll stick. And that frightens him. Frightens him a lot.He'll all of a sudden try to get loose from whatever he'sstuck to. He's got hands and he's doing this. And he's acomplete being, tin cans and all.

And he'll all of a sudden do this and then suddenly it'lloccur to him that he isn't anything. He'll say, "I'm justan invader from space," or "I'm just a - I'm just nothing,"or "I've always failed anyway," or "There isn't hope - anyhope for me anyway," and shoot right back into the bodyagain. And he'll stick in there. He wasn't anythingoutside. Inside, all you have to do to free him again isredistribute his looking. Get him to look once more.

All right. Well, you get the favored technique, with regardto the GE, is exteriorization. The technique which returnsthe person his personality is exteriorization. Thetechnique which adjusts the anxiety and troubles andinability to handle anchor points is exteriorization. Themost workable technique is Postulate Processing but that isonly workable, actually, on exteriorized thetans.

So we get as the first hump of the whole thingexteriorization; not perception when exteriorized butexteriorization after being exteriorized. Nothing to this.

Now the difficulty you will have with exteriorization isnot great. If there is a difficulty it's because of theuncertainty of the preclear. He's got a big dodge he'srunning one way or the other. He's just running a dodge onyou as to why he shouldn't leave this body because hefinally is something. And he'll mean - if he could make thebody run - my God, if it had two broken legs and he couldstill drag it down the street one way or the other, hewould. Those things are scarce. He loses them too much andhe loses them too easily. He'd drag anything with himrather than get out of the body.

Because this is - this seems idiotic to him that you shouldask him to get out of the body, because he's got a body.And also, you try to tell him that he can't process himselfwhile still in the body and he thinks you're goofy. Becausehe tangles up the GE with the entities he's carrying aroundand he sees the GE being totally obedient to him, and soforth, so he doesn't understand why the GE couldn't becleared the same time he's cleared. And he goes into a bigcomputation about this which he doesn't tell himself or youabout.

And we get this kind of a silly situation of a body, whichis built out of very heavy particles, being battered aroundall the time because the thetan knows what will processhimself. And when he uses that, it doesn't process the bodyproperly and it rather knocks the body's operatingmechanisms flat and upsets them considerably.

So there's your solution to the thing. You'll just have toget him out. And he's under the delusion that he has to be in.

Now, the effort of the body to get its anchor points backoccasionally complements the effort of the thetan to stayin. But the thetan is trying to stay in and he's trying tohaul in and he's trying to pull in and he's trying to haulflat whenever you get into this situation of difficultexteriorization.

What's he trying to do? He's trying to withdraw. What's hetrying to do? He's trying to hide. What's he trying to do?He's trying to - anything you could think of but it's justthe effort is in the direction of pulling in the anchorpoints and the body is in the direction of trying to pullin the thetan.

How do you solve this? Six Steps to Better Beingness willsolve it. Or Step III, SOP 8, will solve it. There areendless solutions. And if you run against all else and soon, why, you've always got other techniques that you canfix him up so that he can't quite keep ahead of you.

But you don't have to have a vast array like this. He's gotone on a lockup of "he mustn't let anything happen." Andthe other one is "he's got his anchor points back." Hedoesn't want to go any further than that. He's got hisanchor points back. And the body is just one of his anchorpoints.

Another problem you'll run into: A thetan will feeltremendously big and Earth terribly small, and so on. He'slost his perception of relative sizes. It's easy to get itback again, very easy to get it back again. DuplicationProcessing will do it. Duplication - just like it's given inthe book. Duplication will adjust his relative sizes. Allright.

You can run a concept or two. You can waste. You can doanything while the guy is in the body. But actually, if thefellow is pinned down in the body, you're wasting time. Youcan run Explosions and Admiration on him and it will softenup some of the lines. You can run an awful lot of it, justan awful lot of it.

Female voice: Can you run it on Expanded GITA?

Huh?

Female voice: Or do you just... You run an explosion andadmiration on Expanded GITA or you are just mocking them up?

Oh, just keep mocking them up and throwing them out, otherpeople mocking. .. The less you figure about it, the betteroff you are. Just throw them out and let them explode. Havethem explode out there, and so on.

Quantity - because you're dealing with energy. You just wantmore energy. You don't want more thinking.

Admiration - you just want more energy, not more thinking.People down below looking up in large masses is admiration.Odd things will happen on Admiration Processing.

Now, that's one of the first things we're going to do.

Female voice: Should you continue Admiration Processingafter the preclear begins to feel he's rising with it? Orhas he had enough?

Could he...

Female voice: Should you continue Admiration Processingafter the preclear feels he's rising from the couch withit or has he had enough?

Huh! He hasn't had near enough. What you're getting is atightening line there. You're getting lines opening upbecause of admiration. And lines which were just littleballs, you might say, just nothing, are suddenly becomingstrong tensional lines.

Female voice: So you can run it longer, huh?

Oh, you can run Admiration Processing by the hundred-hourlot. And you will get into the condition, though, where thewhole body starts to soften. But it's not dangerous. Okay.

Now, the one member of the class to whom this is going tohappen - Mr. Young. And I want you to take a notebook, likethe petty-cash book that's out there in the other room, andwhile the processing is being done we're going to have theauditor doing the job making notes as to manifestations.We're going to run this for your benefit and for hisbenefit. You're going to see lines open up all over theplace, and so forth. All we're going to run is AdmirationProcessing and we're going to alternate it with a littlebit - minimal, minimal - of Six Steps to Better Beinguess.We're just going to do this to show you what happens. Isthat all right with you?

Male voice: Okay.

The way you do this process is simplicity itself You getpeople mocked up - no matter if he can't get mock-ups or can get mock-ups-you get people mocked up in masses, alllooking up and admiring the preclean. People in masseslooking up and admiring somebody else than the preclean. And other people mocking up masses of people to admire otherpeople. And this at once wastes and accepts admiration.

You can run it this way and you'll occasionally findyourself a little bit pushed to get enough people there.Vary the kinds of people - stadiums full of people, theatersfull of people, and so on. I won't forecast what wouldhappen on this, but very possibly you'll find out thatevery time you put a stadium full of people around thepreclear, all the seats get sucked empty, ptock. Then he'sgoing to have to put them in there again.

Now, you'd use this, ordinarily, with an E-Meter. You'd seeaction on the E-Meter and I think you'll see the E-Meterstick. But I'd like to see how Admiration Processing workson the E-Meter. So, just set it up and roll it.

Now, we won't put any definite time on how long you'regoing to run this, because you might only have to run itfor a very short time and you might have to grind out fortwo or three days. But I don't think that it will be muchlonger.

Now, remember that there's another formula in there.There's Formula H. And when the preclear gets the feelingthat he's going completely insane, remember that this is"must withdraw but can't withdraw" or "must reach - must but can't reach."

"Must reach but cannot reach," "must withdraw but cannotwithdraw" is insanity itself. And that turns on a funnyemotion. Anybody here could have that emotion turned on, bythe way. All of a sudden he says, "Nyah! I'm going mad!"Any time anybody starts feeling like that, why, you know itis either "must withdraw and can't withdraw" or "must reachand can't reach."

Well, you'd better run it this way - better run it this way:"Get the feeling that you must withdraw but can't withdraw. That you must reach but can't reach."

Male voice: In other words, you just suffer through until...

Well, as a matter of fact, it'll only last for about threeor four minutes if you run that in there. It'll run for alittle - quite a little bit longer on Admiration Processing - could continue for a half an hour or so, probably. But if you just - the guy just all of a sudden looks completely wild-eyed, and so forth, he's locked up on that. And it's a very delicate thing, although it seems to be very solid at the moment it's hit. It's a precise point and that emotion is the emotion of insanity.

It's just a precision point of exactly what pattern ofparticles gives this emotion which you accept as theemotion called insanity. That's all. See? And it's just"must reach but can't reach," "must withdraw but can'twithdraw." It's either one or the other. It's notnecessarily both. But to run it you would run "must reachbut can't reach," "must withdraw - can't withdraw."

Male voice: Suppose your preclear gets feeling kind ofrotten on Admiration Processing. Do you just continueAdmiration Processing or do you switch to SSSA?

In this case - in this case, we will vary it slightly by aminimal use of Six Steps - minimal use. For instance, youshouldn't finish up a session, particularly, withoutletting him hold on to the anchor points of the room atleast for a couple of minutes or do a duplication or two.See, just terrifically tiny use - just enough to orient inpresent time.

And you'll get a very good idea - you as a class - what happens to people with Admiration Processing. There's nothing bad going to happen, but you'll see the guy kind of have atendency to slide out of present time, and various patternsturn up, and so on.

I want you to do that on an experimental level. Is that allright with you?

Male voice: Uh-huh.

Good. You would not do this in ordinary processing. Youwould do a little bit of Admiration Processing and a wholelot of Six Steps to Better Beingness - complete reversal. AndI think you'll get him exteriorized very shortly.

See, the only thing that keeps him interiorized, as far ashe's concerned, mechanically, is a collapsed communicationline. And the only way the communication line cancollapse... He can't get a communication line from anexterior point of the body into the body. When he starts tomove out, he feels like he is on springs. And ping, hecomes back in again. Well, that's just too tight a line -admiration of that line.

And what do you admire? Well, you'd admire the thetan.You'd admire Christ. You'd admire ghosts. You could admireanything on the list of Expanded GITA - anything on subjectmatter, as far as that's concerned. You see, there's alittle more of a technique there.

You don't have to admire subjects. You don't have to admiresubjects. But if you keep on admiring bodies rather thanthetans, you're just softening up all the body ridges andyou're having the thetan service the body again, you see,rather than the thetan getting it directly.

Okay? Now, are there any questions about this?

Okay. There being none, it's the official end of the lecture.

[end of tape.]

1st ACC - 04

Tape number 655 onthe Flag Master List.

THETAN CONTROL, PART I - HANDLING OCCLUSION

A lecture given on 8 October 1953

This is October the 8th, eight o'clock. And we're going tocover this morning a little more technical data.

This morning I want to talk to you very specifically on thesubject of technique.

You notice we're covering in the morning, to some degree,the rough case and in the afternoon we re covering the easycase. And that is no reason why you should concentrate allof your auditing talent upon the tough case.

Tough cases are expendable. I mean, the day I found out -the day I found out this thing about the "poor thetan" - thepoor thetan. He - this rough, rough, rough, rough case. Hecouldn't get out - I did this to about five cases, by theway. He couldn't get out. He couldn't move out. He couldn'trun concepts and nothing had any reality to him. And he wasreally - he was really having a rough time.

And then I discovered that if you could reduce the morale -the physical morale of the body sufficiently, they'd leave. They had no slightest difficulty in doing so. They were not stuck to the body. They'd kind of get stuck a little bit once in a while when they hit MEST too hard because - that was because they were too close up to it. They had no difficulty. They moved right out - complete, though, with everything they had.

It was the same - but it was the same sort of operationthat you and I would - well, you and I would not like to moveout of a house that we'd been living in for a long time andso forth with all of our treasured possessions and everything. And somebody suddenly comes along and kicks - kicks us out. We wouldn't like that.

Well, this was about the same frame of mind, about the samereluctance. He was not stuck to the body - this first one Iran. And the succeeding four that I made this test on werenot stuck. They moved right out. They weren't stuck.

The thetan has approximated the exact shape of the body asnear as possible. And outside of the energy he isgenerating, that energy which he is packing around is notnecessarily impinged upon this universe. Now, think of thatcarefully.

Now let's take this magazine I'm holding in my hand hereand we see that when I reach over and touch this wall herewith the magazine, the magazine is impinged upon the wall.The magazine is impinged upon this universe. Now, youunderstand that? Okay. It's impingement.

Okay. This magazine is impinged upon the wall here. Andtherefore we would be able to run the magazine through thewall very easily if - of course, we had to have hadsufficient velocity and so forth, but we would make a holein the wall, wouldn't we?

Speaking of high pressure jets and things like that - you can actually take a jet of water and cut steel with it, and so forth. But it would cut the wall like the bamboo splinterthat goes through the palm tree in a hurricane. Youcould - but it would make a hole in the palm tree. You seethis now?

We're taking a piece of the MEST universe - this magazine -and we are pushing it up against a piece of the MEST universe.So we are then accustomed to believe that that thing whichis up against something is necessarily convinced that it isup against something. Just because something is convincedit is up against something, we are accustomed to believingthat the thing is up against something.

Now, this sounds like one of those horribly obvious points;just like Q and A. The way across - there's this tribe ofIndians that had these phrases like "The way to cross thelake is to cross the lake," "The way to eat duck is to eatduck." They had all of these - these maxims by which theyguided their way. Boy, they were really identified. "Theanswer to the problem is the answer to the problem." That'sall. That's all it is.

But let's take this again and now let's realize that wehave this observation, this continual observation andthought in mind. We have this continually: that when wetake a piece of something and push it up against a piece ofsomething, the two are necessarily touching each other. Andif we take the first something and shove it hard enough orfast enough at the second something, we get a hole in thesecond something and we get penetration and we get damageof some sort against this first something. Now youunderstand that. I mean I'm just laboring something that wesee every day. We put our foot, our shoe, down on theground. And if it were dirt, we would leave a footprint onthe ground.

Now just - just see that very clearly because it is true onlyin terms of the MEST universe and is not true in terms ofthe thetan versus the MEST universe. He is - simply thinks heis this magazine impinged against this wall. The wall is ofone order of magnitude and the magazine is the same orderof magnitude, but if the magazine were a thetan, you've gota different order of energy. And the different order ofenergy, if you please, cannot make a hole in the wall withgreat ease simply by being thrust at the wall, but onlybecomes certain that it can.

So we put a thetan in a quart can. Let's see this. We put athetan in a quart can. He would think he could pressagainst the edges of the quart can and assume the internalshape of the can. Well, he's a very clever fellow becausehe can only approximate the internal dimensions of the can.And he has to be awfully careful not to slop over becausehe would not be contained in the quart can - he would be a quart and a half See? Because he doesn't - with the energyhe's packing around, at its order of magnitude withrelationship to its spatial structure, and so forth - hedoesn't approximate this can.

But the occluded case has become certain - it's the onlydifference between, really, an occluded case and awide-open one - the occluded case is quite certain that hehas. The occluded case knows he cannot walk through doors.He knows this very well. And yet when he's audited, hismain concern and his real worry is getting - getting wrongabout the way he's approximating the body. And if he'sreally worried about anything it's because he's notapproximating the body properly.

You see, he is doing - he is doing a pervasion. That's allhe's doing. But he's doing a perfect pervasion and arecognized pervasion. And he gets down Tone Scale to apoint where he's afraid to realize that all he can do isapproximate. So he tries to reconvince himself byapproximating with great exactness.

And your occluded case thinks he's more or less the shapeof the body. And as you maul this character around and givehim concepts and so forth, he's liable to assume the shapeof some earlier body. He gets upset. And he's sure he's notdoing this body. He's a little bit upset. But he knows he'sdoing a body and this is as close as he can come to itbecause he can't quite get to the end of his nose anymore.

And if you really want to make this person happy withoutclearing him at all, just fix him up so that he'll be ableto approximate the shape of his nose and the shape of hiseyes and the shape of the back of his head and fill in allthe blank spots in the body and he'd be very happy. That'swhy communication is so vital. He's approximating the sameshape as the body. He isn't pervading it.

You've gone a step down, you see, on his ability. The wide,pardon, not the wide-open case, but the easily exteriorizedcase - the Step I case - pervades the body. He can pervadeanything. He can pervade automobiles, light globes, the sun, anything. He can approximate any of these things and pervade them. He can approximate anything and he can pervade anything because he's not afraid to be there. See, he isn't quite that upset about being there.

Well if a person goes along for a while, they get thatupset about being there so they're not pervading andthey're afraid they're just approximating. And when theyget a hollow spot in their nose and a hollow spot in thetop of their head, they become very certain that allthey're doing is approximating and they're no longerpervading. And they get sick and they get very sad becausethey know now they're a fake.

And the main trouble occluded cases have is thiscomputation of pretense. And they're very afraid of beingdiscovered in a state of pretense. They become extremelytruthful. All the bad things that you can say about cases,the one thing that you can say rather uniformly about anoccluded case is that it - he gets real upset with himselffor lying. He's quite truthful.

Whereas your wide-open case, which is the delusive levelabove that, which has gone out to the line where they knowthey can't even approximate - they're just a facsimile. Theyknow this. Oh, they're just - they're one step out. They'revery thin. They're not quite there. They can dub inanything. They're going to have to make a mock-up. They'regoing to have to make a mock-up at every turn becausethey're really getting unreal there, see? They can'tpervade. They can't approximate. Now all they can do ismake a mock-up and they'll say this mock-up is a memory.Fantastic that these cases respond. A wide-open case thatyou think very often is a very easy case - they say, "Gotsonic and visio? Oh, yes, yes, yes." They're just doing amock-up.

So they get straightened up by next-to-the-last list inSelf Analysis - "Can you remember something real?" and soforth. This case gets real delusive.

Now, how do you know the case is delusive and how do youknow the case is actually pervading? Well, you'd betterlook at the general structure of the being himself to getyour first alertness to this. Because your wide-open casehas endocrine difflculties of magnitude. If you want asingle index: Somebody comes wobbling in to see you andstumbling in and androgen/estrogen failure, thyroidfailure; the fatty tissue on the backs of the ankles is allshot to the devil; they got diabetes - any one of thesevarious things which designates this. You can take thatcase and if that case says, "Oh yes, I've got sonic andI've got visio and I've got all these other beautifulthings," and so on, you just don't happen to match. Thischaracter just doesn't match.

But you work this case for a little while, by the way, andthey click through into an occlusion and then they clickthrough into an ability to pervade. And when they canpervade, that's fine. They don't have to have any furtherupset about life at all. I mean, they can pervade.

But you get them any distance away from - you get anybody any distance away from the body and he becomes unsure ofhimself He'll throw up a mock-up before he'll pervadesomething. He'll throw up a mock-up and pervade it ratherthan just pervading it.

So quite often you run Reach and Withdraw (that is, Contactor Step VII of SOP 8) on a Step I. If you are very explicitas to how he does it - which was done here yesterday, whichI'm making a point out of - if you're very explicit as to howhe must reach and withdraw and so forth, your thetan isliable to get uncertain and things are liable to be quiteunreal to him because if you say he has to do so-and-so andhe has to do so-and-so, that might not be - might not be hiscapability of operation at that point. So you tell him toreach and withdraw; well, he'll go over and sit on the walland then move off the wall. That's good enough.

But if you tell him to put out a beam on the wall and do itthis way and do it that way and he gets uncertain aboutwhat he's doing because he doesn't put - well, you've thrownhim two imponderables. In the first place, he hasn't beendrilled on how to handle beams, let's say, or he hasn'teven really been drilled much on how to move around. Andall of a sudden you're asking him to do this thingspecifically and then do something else, which is contact.

I said in the lectures something that should have beenmodified: I said there was no interchange of energy. Ishould have said there is no gross interchange of energybetween thetans. When we speak of energy, I was speaking offorce energy. That's your physicist's definition of energy.There is an interchange of flow between the two and lightenergies.

If two thetans were in wonderful condition, they couldprobably - probably throw blocks of energy to each other andbe very happy about it. But they'd have to approximate eachother's wavelength as far as the energy is concerned.Nothing can become more invisible, and more puzzlinglyinvisible, to something else than a thetan to anotherthetan. They'll shift their wavelength. They'll becomeinvisible. And they'll shift their wavelengths and they'llbecome visible.

Well, a thetan has to be - he has to be, oh, in terrificshape. I mean, he's got to be an Operating Thetan plus,plus, plus, plus in order to shift his energy down farenough - this is just theoretical - shift his energy downfar enough to get into solid matter. Now, he'd really haveto shift wavelength down. He certainly would be - he'd haveto be able to - ptew! - pull everything together.

But get carefully here - carefully get this: that your thetanis approximating or pervading. And the difference betweenapproximating and pervading is simply that he actually has - approximating - he simply has a sort of a mock-up of whathe's supposed to be and then he pervades the mock-up. Andin pervasion he simply directly pervades the MEST object.

Well, how does he pervade it? He pervades it by assumingits shape. And then, having assumed its shape, he can thenassume its characteristics. And if it has a hard timepushing against walls, then he can assume that he's havinga hard time pushing against walls. How neat. There's nothing to it - you see the thetan's pushing against the wall.

Now, I introduced a drill in the Doctorate Course wherebyyou went up to the wall and took your theta hands and putthem against the wall. It was an effort to show people thatthey could shift down, but at the time I was overshootingthe cases. Cases can't shift down that easily. And you takesome guy in pretty good shape, just take his hands, youmight say, out.

Now, the second that your thetan stops pervading, as soonas he stops pervading and starts putting a mock-up thereand then approximating it - approximating the shape he'd like to pervade with a mock-up - then you start to get intoerrors. He starts to make errors. He's not in bad shape.And to hell with whether or not he's making errors; you'renot worried about that.

Most of the Step I's that you exteriorize will immediatelygo out and they'll make a mock-up of what they're lookingat and then pervade the mockup. They won't take a look atwhat they're looking at and then pervade it. This is justchronic. This is just a chronic upset that he runs intobecause "Things are dangerous." And that's why you have todrill him an awful long time on Step I. And that's why yougo all the rest of the Steps with a Step I.

He gets to a point, finally, where if - see, if he canapproximate a generator and then sit in the middle of thegenerator and then be fairly satisfied as to what he'sdoing, you wouldn't - you'd never explain to him what he'sdoing. He's doing a good job, really. He looked at thegenerator and then he approximated the generator and thenhe occupied the center of the approximation. Mock-up, see?But the mock-up was coincident to a large degree with thegenerator.

Now, a thetan is doing this higher on the Tone Scale in avery peculiar way. He'll not just approximate thegenerator, he will put another generator over thegenerator. Originally, on the track, this is how heoccupied bodies. Boy, when a thetan occupied a body andjust simply made a mock-up of the body while he waspervading the body, he would make it heavy enough, solidenough, so that he could then just move his mock-up and thebody, being sort of like a fly in a trap, couldn't help butmove. MEST couldn't help but move the second he moved. Andthis is simply a problem of energy.

Well, let's take the occluded case - making my point verysharp to you here - you just take the occluded case and the case which you run into normally that's in rather badcondition, and you take the magazine and you push it upagainst the wall. The magazine pushes against the wall. Thethetan - Step V, Step IV - Step III, Step Il - he is morecertain than certain that he is trapped one way or theother by walls. He's approximated a mockup. See, he's taken this mock-up - approximating a body, rather - and then hepervades this mock-up. And then he fits this mock-up in thebody, and he's just having a picnic for himself . He's justall snarled up.

And now you ask him all of a sudden to move out; he can'tmove out because a mock-up is his body. And he's veryconfused when you ask him to do this. But if the body getssick, he has to come back to battery and stop hispretending, stop this feeling of pretense, and so on, andjust move out and he feels real sad.

But does he move out of anything? No, he doesn't move outof anything. He's all through, over, on and in. And a StepV is so thoroughly over, through, on and in that he's justa little bit frantic on one point, is: Can he keep lined upwith this thing? He's got to keep lined up with it at alltimes, you see, to play the game right. And can he keeplined up? That's his anxiety.

So he'll happily run any damn thing you ask him to run, andso forth. But don't start moving in to a point which moveshis location in space in some other direction or mannerthan the body, because here's his anxiety. His anxiety is"Can I keep lined up with and approximating the mock-upwhich I have in the space of the body? Can I keep lined upwith the mock-up I am pervading which approximates the bodywhich I am occupying?" See, he's gone too many steps. He'stoo far removed from an easy assumption of a body. And he'safraid that if he got a little bit moved one way or theother, by God, he wouldn't be able to control that body; hejust wouldn't be able to. His primary concern is just that:Can he control this body or can't he?

Well now, he gets in bad shape when he finds out that he asa body cannot control somebody else as a body. And ofcourse, he's doing silly things there. That's the silliestthing of all: trying to control with words. Trying tocontrol with words and commands. Ah, boy, there the thetandigs his grave every time.

There's only one method of control if you just have tocontrol and that is force. And then there are devious waysand they're - all fall into the category of words. Becauseusually people who are anxious about control are alsopulling another gag. They don't dare admire anything. Whydon't they dare admire anything? They think if they admiresomething they'll melt this approximation, this mock-up,they've got. They're having a hell of a time forthemselves. See, if they start to admire something they'reliable to melt and then they'd get out of line with the body.

Now, if you could think of a black-gauze webbing of somesort which was in the shape of a body which lined up - whichhad feet and hands and everything - you've got this webbingsystem. It's black gauze. And bodies are kind of scared ofblack gauze and they're easy to control.

Now, if you let this... Old friend Korzybski - great guy,Korzybski. I'm going to have to read something of hissometime. When you line up two spaces coincident here,you'll see exactly what the condition is with a thetan.Here's a body over here. It hasn't any thetan in it. Here'sa body - just a guy. And now we put this black-gauzeapproximation of the body - now we move these two things into the same space. Well now, supposing we could just.

If we shoved a little bit too hard, the black-gauze thingwould just move on outside and appear on the other side ofthe body. If we went over there, see, and we gave it alittle shove, it'd move three or four inches on the otherside of the body. If we gave it a real hard shove, it justgoes through. You can shove it up above, you can shove itdown through and it would be a good magician's trick. Amagician would be very pleased to have a trick like thiswhere he could have a shadow that he could shove, for theedification of an audience, through and in front of, inback of a solid object. The shadow obviously has mass andthe solid object obviously has mass. Well, the thetan getsinto a terrific state of anxiety because all you have to dois give him a tiny little push and he'll just skid right onthrough.

He's just got to start thinking all the time. When peoplewake up in the morning, by the way, they're seldom quitelined up. And they've lain there all night trying to keepthe body from knowing that they were wide awake and sothey've convinced themselves that they'd better go to sleeptoo. Their anxiety extends out to having to do everythingthe body does, you see? They have to approximate everythingthe body does. They make mock-ups of everything the bodydoes. They guide themselves the same way as they do a body.This is nonsense because they don't even vaguely have to dothis.

You see, by doing all these things of identification,you've got a complete identification. And they think theyhave to have this complete identification to get sufficientsolidity - not particularly bad this complete identification,see - get enough solidity to make the legs go and the headnod and the face move and so on, see? They think they haveto have all this.

So, they go to the point of being unconscious when the bodyis being unconscious, being asleep when the body's asleep,and so on. Well, you start to bring somebody up Tone Scaleand he'll find himself lying there all night thinking aboutsomething else. And then once in a while he'll have a gamewith himself. He'll have what people have been callingdreams. It's about as much of a dream as it is for you touncross your legs. I mean, the thetan knows this very well.It's a joke. It's a real big joke he's playing - he's playingon himself.

But his other methods of controlling the body are themethods which other people have used to control the body.Now, please, please get that. People have controlled thisbody with words and commands. He's seen, then, this darnbody - he didn't take responsibility for all the things itdid, of course; he couldn't - he's seen this body jump up and run and he's seen this body cower and he's seen this body say, "Yes, Mother," on a stimulus-response mechanism. This is wonderful. So he starts saying, "Jump up and run," and "Yes, Mother," and so on, and you get your genus ofcircuits. He's using this word method to control the body.

Well, this word method to control the body is no good atall. It's just nonsense. People who start to control otherpeople with words don't get very far unless they havecontrolled people physically. If they can control peoplephysically fairly easily - that is to say, if they cancontrol the body, you know, reach over and put your handson a body and fix it in space or lift it up in the air...Toss a little baby around, by the way, if you want to comeunder - in final command of the baby's body. Not because youcommand the baby at all but because the baby as a thetanwill realize that you can now control the body with wordsand so he'll start using words on the baby. He's perfectlywilling to accept any method of control.

Now, a case that's become occluded is afraid of relaxingany level or giving away any method of control because hisanxiety is on the basis of control of a body. You canexteriorize many occluded cases simply by making them run aconcept. Now, this sounds very strange. Try to get them torun the concept on themselves, not on the body. Because alot of your auditing is just being thrown to the body bythe thetan. See, you're auditing a thetan which is auditinga body. You're not auditing a thetan.

You'd better look at a preclear. If a preclear isn'twobbling around very much and isn't floundering around anddoesn't occasionally curl up in a ball and do other strangethings, you're not auditing him. You are auditing the - youare auditing something that is auditing something else. Afellow who just sits there rather dispassionately, so on - he's scared to let you take anything away from him, so he just passes it on. And he's very happy about you a lot of the time because, you see, you're helping him out to getthis body in shape so he can control it.

Well, if you can run the concept on him "I can control thisbody from two feet behind it," or "I can control this bodyfrom the left shoulder," or "I can control this body fromalongside of it," why - and, "I can't control this body."

You'll start in "I can't control this body" on rising-scalepostulates and just give him "I can't control this bodyfrom a distance. I can control this body from a distance,"all of a sudden he'll say, "What do you know, I'm - why not."And he'll just give a shove. And he'll just be at a littledistance and find out.

Now if he happens to run into MEST hard or he happens toget into another situation which makes him believe thatthings are very strange and peculiar and so on, he's liableto get scared.

[End of tape.]

1st ACC - 05

Tape number 656 on the Flag Master List.

THETAN CONTROL, PART Il - HANDLING OCCLUSION

A lecture given on 8 October 1953

Continuing this October 8th, first lecture.

We have a problem here in terms of knowingness. What is athetan willing to know?

Well, the funny part of it is, is the thetan really isn'twilling to know anything. We have to get into the line ofwhat is a thetan willing to do? Well, if you can show athetan he can do something by knowing something, then he'sin good shape. Ah yeah, he'll consent to know somethingthen. It's kind of a degraded method of going about things.You'd have to be in a very low-toned society to have thiscome about but he's willing to know something.

As a consequence, in education, if you teach a childarithmetic without ever showing the child that arithmeticwas any use, he isn't willing to know arithmetic. Ofcourse, you're selling him a bill of goods to tell himarithmetic is of any use, anyhow. Funny part of it is, isall you have to do is look at the answer. I mean, he thinksmuch better in terms of action. When he is a fact, he isdoing much better than thinking up some factors to make afact. All right.

Your thetan is, then, interested in control. Now, inpast - in past work that we've been doing, we've been givinga - giving a lot of - lot of attention to what we've beencalling error. You understand that we've inherited a lot offaults in our culture. We've inherited these. They - man hasthought about thinking for a long time. They're in thelanguage. They're in the culture itself. They're all overthe place. And as we manage to find these and shed them,our knowledge advances. But our knowledge advances as fastas we understand that - understand by our remaining thinkingthat the thinking we had wasn't necessary. Follow that?

Now, we're very reluctant, you see, to give up any methodof control because control means action. And if you can'thave action then the thetan doesn't think he has very much.And if he doesn't have very much then life is very dullindeed and he'd just rather not live it. He gets into thestate of Homo sapiens because he's approximated Homosapiens. If Homo - if he limits all the action he can do tothe action Homo sapiens can do, then he's in bad shape.

Now, the only time your thetan snaps back into the body andsticks is not when somebody throws a firecracker in hisface or not when somebody injures the body in some fashionor not when these - oh, boy, that's action - but when he hasbeen outside the body and hasn't been able to completelycontrol it.

Get the idea: The fellow is walking across the street.You've got him now, he's a Step I, you've exteriorized him,you've run the first drills of beingness. He's perfectlywilling to play ball with you. And this is all rightbecause his body is there and it's under guard and he'scertain - he's very certain nothing will happen to him, thatyou aren't going to do anything to him that's bad. You'renot going to recontrol the body or suddenly steal it off ofhim. So he's perfectly willing to go on with the processing. And he goes out and he does this and that. Then he comes back a couple of days later and by God, you can't get him out of his head.

Or he's been a (quote) Theta Clear (unquote) as far as youcould tell for about three months. And you see him one dayand he all of a sudden - he can't get out of his head. Hetells you he can't. It's an impossibility; he knows. He'djust as soon push and strain at the body trying to movesome molecule of the body outside of the body. But he isn'tgoing to just cooperate with you right away.

Now, what is the factor that has stopped his ability toexteriorize and fly around and enjoy himself? It's he'sreceived a bad moment of uncontrol - a bad moment ofinability to control. Now, please remember this becauseyou'll run into it just continuously. He has gotten halfwayacross the street; he's made his body walk across thestreet. And he was sitting up on a telephone pole enjoyingthe street and enjoying the scenery and everything and thebody was walking across the street. He wasn't paying muchattention to it. And a doggone taxicab came around thecorner and turned the wrong way too fast, and so forth, andalmost hit his body. And he ran into the lag factor of theMEST universe. We're going to go into this right away. Heran into the lag factor of the MEST universe and it scaredhim. So he solves the lag factor by being in the bodyagain. He couldn't make the body jump as quick as hethought the body ought to jump.

And some fellow will get in his car and he'll sit at astoplight and he may be processing himself or something.He's sitting up on the roof He's driving the car. And he'ssitting up on the roof or something of the sort. And as hegoes along he stops at a stoplight and he's just up theredoping off. He doesn't dope off, I mean, he's just looking atthings and thinking about things and interested and soforth. And he isn't immediately aware that he's forgottenfor a moment what he's doing.

Why? He came up to the stoplight and the stoplight saidstop, so his body stopped the car. And this car is not inmotion. Well, he's been operating under this slight strainof the body being in motion, you see? And he didn't thinkthose beautiful thoughts that he was - quite - he was kind of saving those - or he was - didn't quite operate the way he thought he ought to operate while the car was in motion.And he suddenly gets in these good, fast licks on thesubject of taking a real good look, now, at that girl hesaw in the last block. Well, he'll just go back and take alook. And the traffic light changes and there sits the canAnd it'll maybe sit there for an hour, traffic jammed up,and so forth.

Well, if he comes back and finds that a cop is arguing withhis body, it gives him a very bad fright. Because the onething a thetan is interested in is police because thatrepresents MEST universe. Your occluded case respondsfantastically to double-terminaling "I am under arrest."Any occluded case - it just responds fabulously to this. Boy, are they convinced they're under arrest! Why? Becausethey're trying to hold motion. And that's what the cops aretrying to do.

Whatever you say about police, they are only trying to doone thing, and that's stop motion. They're the stop -they're the best approximation of the MEST universe thatyou could make, really - justice and the police, courts. Andthe police themselves just - all they want to do is just stopmotion.

Someday some city is going to realize this and take trafficout of the hands of the police and thus empty the streets.But as long as traffic stays in the hands of the policethere's never going to be any motion of traffic. Allthey're going to do is slow down traffic and impossiblydirect it. They're going to keep it on the street longer - we're using lots of one-way streets, you see. They're going to slow down its speed.

It never occurs to anybody to put at every block, justwilly-nilly... There's too many tools, there's too muchsteel in this society to balk, you see, at any project thatonly takes - would take a month or two of labor on the partof a city and a few guys. Every street, and so on, ought tohave walkovers or walk-unders. Walk-unders are much superior to walk-overs because they've always had toeliminate later, elevateds.

But what's the pedestrian doing in the street? You can askthat question. What's he doing there?

Then they're going to have to make stores - just have to makestores - put truck delivery parking systems below the store.That truck is going to have to go into the basement. Hecould drive down the street all right, but for heaven'ssakes don't have him stop before he gets off the street!And you wouldn't have any traffic problem anywhere in thesebig cities. But as long as it's in the hands of the police -pam!

Well, your thetan has been stop-motioned, stop-motioned,stop-motioned, until he actually thinks the cops are afterhim. The cops aren't after him. You find the major key inocclusion on a lot of cases is simply - dates to a momentwhen the person was arrested. You'll find it - you check it back over - I've checked it several times.

A fellow was arrested on just some little thing; you hardlythink it would've amounted to anything. But all of a suddenhe got sick at the prospect of having to go to court andhe got a - there'll be a big emotional upset. It'll show upon an E-Meter like neon signs. All right.

Control - the ability to start, stop and change motion - is the primary concern of the thetan. And he is using this sillymethod of "Now, Willie, you run down to the store." Oh,this is really interesting. He goes into thisautomaticity. And he tells his body, "Willie, you run downto the store." Well, that's obviously very simple, becauseMama gets the body to mind. Mama can lay her hands on. AndMama, of course, is not a thetan. Mama's a body. Everybodyis in a body in this world, but thee; and thou art athetan. So to stay in agreement you have to be a body, yousee? There aren't any other thetans in the world exceptyourself.

Well anyway, you get what this is, then? If your thinkingis oriented around the basis of being stuck in a body, lookhow far off we are on our nomenclature and so forth. Solet's not orient our thinking on the basis of "stuck in abody." Let's orient our thinking on the basis "Well, he'spervading a body." Well, that's good, you see? That doesn'tmean he's going to have any trouble, he's pervading it.

Now, he's pervading an approximation of the body. And nowyou've got a body mocked up, more or less, on the samelines as the body. Rrrrr! That's real bad. And this body isapproximating the immediate geographical location - thismock-up body - of the human body. And there's enoughconcourse between the human body and the mock-up body, sothe thetan, by controlling the mock-up, controls the humanbody. And he's real good at it. Don't for a moment thinkthe thetan isn't doing a terrific job of control.

Male voice: Well, isn't that just a case of collapsedterminals, where he's got one terminal superimposed on another?

Sure. That's right. He's got both terminals collapsed. Buthe wants them collapsed. Let's not go in for astimulus-response explanation. It's a perfectly realizedexplanation. He knows - you know, as you sit here, that youwant to control your body. Let's not worry about what youare or anything else; that you know. You want to controlyour body. You want to be able to light a cigarette whenyou want to light a cigarette, to keep your body sittingupright in a chair. You want to be able to - to be able, inan hour or so, to walk and you want to be able to talk. Inother words, your entire concentration is on control of thebody. But you are realizing that you have the desire tocontrol the body. Nobody's whipping you into controllingthis body. You can realize it and rationalize it and say,"Well, if I don't do these things, some other horriblethings will happen. There will be penalties." The hellthere will be.

Then if you say, "Well, things would really be upset aroundhere if I just left this body sitting in the chair!" Well,the reason you wouldn't do that is because you have otherpeople's problems. By the way, a terrific button: A thetanis only worried about other people's problems. If he up andleft the body there, other people are dependent upon thisbody and he'd be letting them down. And he actually has aterrific level of responsibility although he's pretendingall the time he doesn't have.

If you start to assess what a thetan is doing - and when yourealize, actually, that it's only the thetan that is doingthis - you all of a sudden, as that being, become quite aperson to yourself. Just realize - people lose sight of thesethings. You maintain this and do that and square thisaround and push cars around and do all sorts of things interms of action. And you can do all sorts of things interms of appearance and maintenance, and so on. It's reallyfabulous. The body can't do one of them. You're a smartcookie, in other words - real smart. You can pick up themfeet and you can put them down.

You go down to the ballet sometime. Boy, you look at a lotof very accomplished thetans. Those bodies aren't dancing.The thetan is pervading with sufficient energy to make thatbody go through all those gyrations. And although after awhile he'll get enough ridges built up on the subject sothat he's got a pattern response, he's the guy that put itthere. Nobody else put it there. He'll use any system - andboy, you can put this as a password to all investigation -he'll use any system proposed - let's not worry abouttested - any system proposed in order to better his controlof the body. And if you were to slant what you were doingfor a preclear into "make it more possible for him tocontrol his and other bodies," boy, he'd sure get in thereand pitch with you - whooey!

But you tell him to get out, this is silly. Because he'sapproximating the body and although there can be a lightenergy interchange (if we misuse the word "energy"),although this is the case, you've got - the body is reallyconvinced; the body's got lots of reasons, you see. It'sgot reasons for everything. It's really convinced. Thebody, being so well approximated, knows it's in completecaptivity. Thetan moves the body by proxy. It's fabulous.It's a fabulous thing the thetan is doing. Because he isnot picking up his leg - body's leg - and moving it aside. He's moving his own leg aside and the body's leg has no other choice but to follow. Well, it took a long time for the thetan to get enough ridges, and so forth, built up there.

So you get this rather silly picture of the thetanidentifying himself with the body and then controlling thebody by controlling his approximation of the body. When you've got his - his pervasion of the body - when his pervasionof the body is perfect, he doesn't put a mock-up coincidentwith the body. He just pervades the body. And pervading thebody, the body does whatever he does.

Well, how does he do it? High scale - he just simply says,"My legs are moving forward now. This is happening. That ishappening." And it happens. It goes on happening, see? Hetakes over the motor responses of the body and simply tellsthem what to do. Without verbal command it is probable thebody wouldn't obey - without this verbalization control inthe society.

Well - by the way, that's not me coughing on these tapes.That's Burke Belknap. And that's - and we got to get - we'vegot to get Burke squared away. He's got a collapsedterminal on his lungs. Okay.

Who is it Burke, by the way?

Male voice: Probably my old man.

Probably your old man? When did you take the terminal offhim and put it on you?

Male voice: I was just thinking walking down the street here, remembermg one of the last times I was at the house, I was somewhat worried about his health, because he was lying awake all night coughing.

Oh, is that so?

Male voice: Yeah. Very interesting.

Did you put a terminal on his lungs then in order to pumpenough energy into him so he could control his lungs?

Male voice: Mm. Not consciously.

Well, why don't you just go through the motions of puttinga terminal on his lungs. There he is lying there coughingand you put a terminal on his his lungs.

Now, let's put the approximation called Burke Belknapimmediately coincident with the old man and stop his coughing.

Now let's put a terminal to that approximation of Burke Belknap.

Now, let's get how certain it's got to be that thatapproximation keeps on stopping his coughing.

Okay. Now, take the terminal off your own chest and putboth terminals on the approximation's chest.

Male voice: Mm-hm.

Feel any more comfortable or...

Male voice: My God, I can breathe!

Yeah, well, the thetan, of course - and we're going into thatright now - various things happen with regard to it. A bodywill do the damnedest things. But a thetan can and willpervade everything. He just can and will pervade all sortsof things.

He'll go around and he'll... A bed - and he's trying to movethe bed so he can make it in the morning. And the damnedbed won't move. Well, his first impulse - his firstimpulse - because all of his impulses are going through awhole chain of control things from a tiny gradient scale toa great one - is to simply mock up a bed with the bed andthen move the mock-up which will move the bed. That's easy.The body has saved work; everything has saved work. If hewere really beefy, tough, on the whole thing, he would beable to get that much condensed energy - force energy - outthere and approximate the bed and give it a shove,theoretically. He would simply put enough - one with enoughgravity in it, or something like that, at one side of theroom and the actual bed would have to come over and hitit - clank!

Well, he's been made - the occluded case has been forced to relinquish responsibility for his mock-ups. He's made a mock-up and the mock-up went on working. And about theleast admired thing you can think of is setting upsomething which then goes on working by itself. Nobody woulddo anything about it, you see? They can't go tell anybody,"For Christ's sakes! Will you unmock that thing!" you know?It just goes on working by itself.

The story of the little windmill, you know, that went onmaking salt. Well, this universe is actually the story ofthat little windmill. It went on making salt. It made saltfor this one and it made salt for that one. And they keptturning, turning, turning, turning, turning and it mademore salt and more salt that filled up all the warehousewith salt. And finally a guy in desperation took it out andthrew it into the sea and that's how the sea became salt.It's still down at the bottom there turning out salt. Well,that's about what happened in this universe. Somebodystarted making salt and here we've got an expandinguniverse. It'll just keep on going. All right.

Here's your system then. If you could just pervade thebed - you just be the bed, you see - what would that be? Has a bed got any possibility or potential of motion in it? No.No. So you have to use some kind of energy to try to makeit move. You could be an automobile and start the motor andit'd run, by pervasion, by just simply shorting enoughswitches. But again, you would be using some additionalenergy besides pervasion. So when it comes to handling theMEST universe, the task is to use minimal energy - and boy,does the thetan dramatize this with labor-saving devices -use minimal energy for a maximal effort.

So, there we - there we've got your occluded case. If you seehim - if vou see him and he tells you he's stuck in his body,well, he's probably stuck in his mock-up. He really isprobably stuck in his mock-up. But he wants to be stuck inhis mock-up. And his whole concern is that his left arm, asa mockup, will not track with his left arm as a body. Now,that was the essence of that little technique of theDoctorate tapes. If you can just make a thetan pull hismock-up arms forward without pulling his body's armsforward, you've broken the spell for him. See? You havebroken the spell.

Now, a thetan starts downhill when he finds out he can'tcontrol another person. He finds out that somebody else isbeing very unreasonable and non-survival, not providingaction or fun or anything of the sort. And he just can'tcontrol this person. So your thetan starts to go downhillthe moment he meets Mama, Papa. They're big, they don'tcontrol easily, and so on. But if you want to see a parentreally loused up, in terrible condition, just haggard andshot to pieces, you watch a parent who doesn't realize thatbaby knows because little baby - the baby is able to mock upand approximate the parents. He's able to pervade, he'sable to do all sorts of things. And furthermore, he can - hecan actually shoot some energy around. And the parents justget more loused up and more loused up. As a thetan, thebaby is in much better shape than the parents. Much morecapable of generating energy.

You think it's real safe to reach over and pick up - pick uplittle Billy and give him a good shake and a slap and a bopon the head. That's real safe. That's just about as safe asgoing out and finding a mama saber-toothed tiger who hasthree young and start beating the young over the head! Youmight be able to beat Mama over the head and get away withit, but don't beat over the young.

This is the same thing. A thetan is watching this littlebaby and is probably only partially occupied in pervadingthe baby because it's kind of dull. And the thetan - thethetan in this particular case is doing everything heshould do and is approximating the body as well as he can.But that early, he isn't - he isn't convinced, you see, thathe has to approximate even what the body thinks in order tocontrol a body. He thinks the body thinks something and heapproximates what the body thinks, in order to make thebody think. Well, that's really dippy. There are muchbetter systems. All right.

Now, a parent comes along and slaps the baby around. Oh,no, no, no, no. First thing you know, you see the parentsgetting haggard and the baby getting worse and worse andthe baby getting mean and ornery and bad. And the parentsgetting harassed and worried and tired and old. It isn'tthat any curse is put on them; they're just simply beingknocked to pieces, that's all. Just in outright warfare.

And in some - you say, "Well, a thetan - you could get a badthetan." Well, there's no such thing as a bad thetan. Athetan - there's such a thing as a thetan who isn't in a verygood state of motion. See, he doesn't - he doesn't - isn'tproducing as much motion as he should. But there isn't anysuch thing as a bad thetan or a good thetan. You see, thebad and good things are those things which have beenevaluated as bad and good by the class or level of societyin which he's operating.

I hope I've made something clear to you. You haven't got anoccluded case stuck in a body. The occluded case is stuck,if stuck at all, in his own mock-up of the body.Theoretically, you actually could just tell the guy, "Well,all right. Leave your body on the chair and walk out intothe middle of the room." He simply could. Actually, he cando it with ease and would do it except that this questionpops up: "What the hell would the body do if I did?" See,that's his whole concern.

And another thing is, after he's been gypped a few timesand has an enormously bad opinion of other human beings -oh, boy, he's got a real bad opinion of these other humanbeings by now. That is, they're untrustworthy. How doesbreak of trust with other human beings and the human raceinfluence the ability to be mobile?

Well, the body has a very limited mobility. Oh, it's verylimited compared to a thetan's mobility, which istremendous. Well, please, please observe that as he sitsthere, you ask him - untrusting - he doesn't trust otherpeople - you ask him to move out and leave an empty body? Oh,oh! Because all thetans do are steal each other's mock-ups.And when he gets this keyed in very thoroughly, he's aboutas ready to leave that body ready for occupancy asanything you could think of.

It's not true at this debased level of a society that youwould leave a body unoccupied and then come back and findout somebody else had occupied it and was walking aroundwith it. Because thetans that we got around today justaren't that good. They couldn't, all in a moment, get amock-up thoroughly enough and know this body well enough soas to be able to control this body. And it'd take years towhere they could get that body to walk, you see, unlessthey were really up Tone Scale.

Now, the way they'd go about it, if they were really upTone Scale... I'll tell you how to steal bodies - this isjust offhand, very quicklike. You just simply influence theperson - influence the person by putting out little beams andenergizing his various ridges and so on. You'll influence aperson quite markedly. You can make a person walk and makehim talk and so forth, without going into the body. And ifyou wanted to steal a body, you would be able to generateenough admiration, and so forth, so you'd just burn hisridge system down. You'd just burn his mock-up down, that'sall. And then you would simply pervade the body and trainit all over again.

You'll find bodies in insane asylums to which this hashappened. And they've just lost all their - whole ridge systems.

And the psychiatrist is really daffy. He's trying to blowup this ridge system with electrical energy. Trying to blowit up so the thetan can't control the body at all. Thepsychiatrist is - really, the reason he acts that waytoward the insane, he's afraid of them. He wants toimmobilize them. Hold motion again, see. All right.

Now, we're just trying to rehabilitate the ability to causemotion on the part of the thetan, which means that we'vegot to rehabilitate his ability to pervade rather thanapproximate. If he can pervade, he'll have enough energy,he's unafraid enough, he can generate enough energy and soforth to do practically anything he wants to do. But if hejust approximates and then occupies his approximation andthen hopes to Christ it will stay in the same physicallocation and situation at all moments.

Every once in a while a fellow will get startled and findhimself walking a pace ahead of himself. You want to knowwhat the startlement is when you don't have the - when youhave one more step than you thought you were going to have?It's not the jar of coming down on that last step. It's thejar of coming out of your body when you didn't mean to.When there's supposed to be one more step and there isn'tone step, there is no jar, is there? Well, you get just thesame sensation. And you as a thetan take this extra step.And the step is there, obviously, and you took it. And bygolly, your leg is out of position. It'll give you aconsiderable shock in the leg to do this.

Well, I hope you understand this just a little bit better.It's not very hard to understand. But sometimes a guy - a guy will pull and strain at this sort of thing. When a person's doing a complete approximation, he'll approximate all the thinkingness and beingness of a body. And if heconcentrates on this hard enough, it's like he's hypnotized.

If you had a fellow sitting up here and you had hypnotizedhim and you had told him he was a grizzly bear, you wouldactually see him operating as a grizzly bear. Isn't thatright? Well, how did you hypnotize him? Just by fixing andthen dispersing and then fixing his attention on one thingand by one thing and with one thing. It's what happened tothe thetan and the body. There actually isn't anythingreally wrong with the thetan beyond the fact that he mighthave better, more motionable things to do than simplyoperate one body, see? He's just fixated on this body. Soyou break that off. He thinks that all he can do isapproximate this body. So you unfix his attention on thebody, which is to say you extrovert him, because he's toointroverted.

Hypnotism is complete introversion on a subject. Being in abody and approximating a body is just complete fixation ona body. And it doesn't mean that a thetan has no morecapability than the operation of a body or operation inthis universe and no more thinkingness than a body wouldhave. This is not true. He just thinks, to a large degree,that he's doing this. And his anxiety is that he won't beable to control it, because he doesn't think he can beanything else.

Okay. Let's take a break.

Okay. Just adding a few more words here. I've given yousome theory and I'm now going to give you a technique. Youhave numerous mentions on other tapes of Black SpotProcessing - Black Spot Processing. It's in one of the SOPs.I think it's in SOP 3, isn't it? - 5. It's in SOP 5. Yes,that's right. SOP 5, Black Spot Processing.

Well now, it's about time I told you how to work thisbecause it is murder on an occluded case, as I said at thetime, and so on. But I very often assume that everything weknow has been assimilated. And you'll find out - I think it'sone of the late Logics - about gradient scales. If you lookin the book there, you'll find out the Logic number of it.Has to do with this universe and gradient scales. Verywell, let's see what this has to do with it. It's Logic 7:Gradient scales are necessary to the evaluations ofproblems and their data. Well, this is the tool ofinfinity-valued logic, and so forth - gradient scales.

Well, let's apply gradient scales to Creative Processing,and we will find out immediately that Black Spot Processingused with this same thing that we were talking about allthe way through SOP 5 becomes a bearcat of a technique. AndI never found out exactly why auditors weren't having aneasy time of it, resolving occluded cases with Black SpotProcessing. So I just skipped Black Spot Processing andwent on to something else.

Actually it's a little bit touchier and more delicate touse than other processes. And I don't like these processesthat require a lot of savvy on the part of an auditor. Sothere would be two ways a process could get dished. One ofthe ways is it required too much savvy and the other one,it requlred too long in order to work. Or the third way, ofcourse, is that it didn't work at all.

Now, let's apply gradient scales to Black Spot Processingand maybe you'll have a lot of luck with an occluded casein a relatively short space of time someday.

You get the person to mock up a black speck - eyes open orclosed - the tiniest of specks on the wall and then make itgo away. If it doesn't go away readily, have him carve outthat chunk of the wall and throw it away. Anything to getrid of it.

If he didn't get rid of that first one, have him mock uptwo or three more tiny black specks up there and get rid ofone of these, you see. And then have him put another one inbefore you ask him to get rid of another one of these. Andput another one in and then get rid of that. And he's gotthree or four in reserve, or six or eight in reserve, so hefeels fairly comfortable, you see. He's not wastinganything. He's got lots of it; it's obviously in abundance.And the blackness is of value, you see. People useblackness to blind other people's mock-ups.

All right. How does this technique follow? The tiny blackspot vanished and then another black spot vanished, untilyou get a little bit of a line charge off of your occludedcase - just a little laugh. It's getting easy, you see. Andhe's got good certainty on it, finally. And then you justgive him another big - another black spot, a little bigger,and then make it vanish. Another black spot, a littlebigger, and make it vanish. And then you give him a coupleof black spots and make them vanish. And you work it oncontinuous successes on gradient scales.

Now you get him up to a point where he can mock up a blacksphere and make it vanish - a tiny speck with threedimensions. And then another tiny speck with threedimensions. And then you finally get this up to where hecan mock up and let go of a pretty good-sized black sphere.He can do this with his eyes open, by the way, or his eyesclosed; but he puts it on the wall. All right - gives it aprecise location.

Now you've got this sphere. Now let's move this sphereabove his head and below him and behind him and on bothsides of him and just handle this sphere. Then let's haveseveral of these spheres and handle them. But each timecreating and destroying them. Making them vanish, you see,go. Now when we get through with spheres and he's got agreat deal of expertness in spheres, put him intosquares - square black spots.

Now you've got a few more square black spots and youdistribute these around in the same fashion. You move themaround, in other words. You move them around him, behindhim, in front of him, below him, on this wall, that wall,on another wall and so forth, until he can easily movearound and change the size of and vanish a black square.

Well, now you made him handle a solid already, didn't you?And I point that out carefully It was a circle or a spot -circular spot - speck - and it became a bigger speck. Andthen you handled that all around the body. But each time hewas putting it there and then making it go away and puttingit there and making it go away, until he did that easily.Then, you got a black circle. And then you got bigger andbigger circles. And then you finally got a tiny sphere. Andthen you got more and more spheres. Then you finally couldget rid of - you could get rid of spheres with great ease.And then you take up - after you've really got great bigspheres of this stuff - then you take up cubes.

Now, a word of warning: Don't take up cubes until you havealready taken up spheres. And don't take up a cube untilhe's really gone a long way on this and is getting verycocky, very self-confident. And when he gets very, veryself-confident about this, give him a cube. Give him atiny, little cube and then a little bit bigger cube. Andthen give him five or six cubes. And then move these cubesall around, and so forth. Because you're handling thepattern of three-dimensional space when you're handling acube. And you re also restimulating jails and other things.And if you all of a sudden gave him a cube, you'd find outthat the case quite normally bogs right there at thatpoint, if you gave him a cube before they're able to handlespheres. Sphere and then cube. All right.

This is the way it handles with most cases. Because thesecases - having been educated in cubical rooms, and that sortof thing, blackness is sticky. They were repressing whitein cubes. They repressed white. They repressed thewhiteness of the page in a cube for a long time and this isreading. And so they get a black cube and they have difficulty.

Yes?

Male voice: I seem to be able to handle the cubes allright, but I have difficulty with the spheres.

Well, for heaven's sakes then, if we have a reverse of thiscase, then, we've got somebody hanging around Mars. And - orwe're hanging around - we re running into space opera. Blackstars are the horror of your space boy. Because they sitthere and they're completely invisible. And all of a suddenthere's a dull crush and he's into this molten mass ofradioactivity and that's the end of his ship.

Well. Let's take a look then... If he's, by the way, hasbeen personifying his ship and being his ship for a longtime... On navy men, by the way, you ought to run theirships out. "Mock up a ship. Be a ship. Let's duplicate thatship. Now let's be that ship. Now let's not be that ship,"and so forth. And boy, you'll pull them off of more - thoseships are shifty, you know, and they still got anchorpoints on them. And every once in a while they'll get avisio as they're processing, of the ship and waves and seaand bridge and...

Like if you ever process a truck driver or a fellow who'sdriven an awful lot, you'll keep getting roads, roads,roads, roads, roads - my God. And in this mechanized society,where you have lots of roads, nearly everybody sooner orlater will get roads, because they're collapsing points.See, the points of the road keep coming in on them. Theyhave to approximate the road all the time and then thiscollapses on them. A great mechanism for driving a wholesociety into slavery.

Anyway, this Black Spot Processing just goes up on thisgradient scale of handling little tiny dots of blackness.If you do this very adroitly and very kindly and with greatsecurity on your own part to the occluded case, he all of asudden is able to make blackness appear and disappear atwill. And his occlusion is simply blackness and he couldmake, then, his own blackness simply vanish.

And it's the easiest process of them all. And auditors havehad a devil's own time with it. And they have had thatdevil's own time because I didn't hand out the dope, Iguess. I never gave an example; I've never given this muchof a rundown on Black Spot Processing. I'd just tell peopleto get a black spot on the wall and when they'd get a blackspot on the wall with great security and that sort ofthing, and move it around a bit, why, ordinarily, in myexperience, my - the cases I was operating with this on - itwould just kind of blow in all directions.

But I researched my auditing just a little bit and I foundmyself handing this out to a preclear the other night. AndI sat back and I listened to myself for a short time. AndI've just given you what I heard. And this, evidently, isthe way I have been handing out my Black Spot Processing,now, for about five or six months. And I wasn't handing itout that way at that time. But I would just make the guyget great security on it. And boy, their certainty comesway up when they're able to pick up and put down a blackspot whenever they like. This keeps them, then, fromholding all that blackness in reserve.

What's the blackness good for? The blackness is to - used toblind and spoil somebody else's mock-up.

If you just run this: "Somebody else is putting up amock-up of a body. And then you put up a mock-up of a bodyand then have somebody else put up a mock-up of a body andthen you put up a mock-up of a body," about the third timeyou put up a mock-up of a body it would be - splat! - rightacross the eyes and it'll all go black.

What's this? This is just somebody else's method of gettingrid of a mockup. What's the only thing you can reallyupset a thetan with? Blind him. That's the only thing youcan really upset him with. So running overt acts onblindness will, actually, turn on occlusion on a case. Ifyou keep a case processing his own blindness - that is tosay, running out all the incidents - running out all theincidents - or if you just keep mocking up and feeding thebank with an enormous number of overt acts of blindness -that is, feeding the bank, you know, leaving these things around, and so forth - you'll turn on occlusion.

How is this? Any way that you do it, whether it's that wayor the other way, just remember the rule this way: You canturn on occlusion by making the thetan motivator hungry.We're going to go into that right now.

Motivator hungry; overt hungry. A person's had so manythings happen to him that he's never done, that he nowbecomes starved to do something. And so, in that case, youlet him do overts. And the case has done so many overts,without anything happening to him, that he's now starvedfor motivators. It's out of balance.

And this works on anything. And yesterday I gave an exampledown there on the stomach.* Now, you get - of course thestomach is guilty of much more - many more overts than it ismotivators. Obviously, because it's alive, isn't it? Andit's always been eating, hasn't it? And you get somebodywith ulcers, you just get him get things and people andparticularly parents and things like that, eating hisstomach. Just have his stomach mocked up and have them dineupon it. And you just keep this up until he gets hisstomach very well eaten many, many times. And when he getshis stomach eaten enough times, all of a sudden his stomachtrouble goes away. Not because you've run out a flock ofengrams or... It's simply that you've given him the motivator.

[The clearsound transcript includes the following note -* Editorss Note: The example referred to was not includedin the recorded lectures of the previous day.]

Well now, a thetan who is occluded is motivator hungry.He's a lot of things - but he's motivator hungry forblindness. He has blinded more mockups than he has beenblinded and so he's motivator hungry. He's holding thisblackness up, he said, "You see? You see? You see? I'm - I'm - I'm not guilty. It was done to me more times than Idid it. Because I've got it, haven't I?" And that doesn'thappen to be the case. He's saying - and oh, and by the way,his thinking will follow this same pattern. The fellow whosays things are bad - "Oh," he says, "my parents did the mostterrible things to me and the government's done the mostterrible things to me and people have done the most terr..."- all he's trying to do is mock up, in his conversationwith you, a sufficient number of motivators. Only troubleis, he isn't mocking them up. He's not solving his caseworth a nickel. He theoretically could, though.

Hippocrates said a person wasn't well of an operation untilhe'd told his friends about it five times. That wasHippocrates' idea of running out engrams, I guess. Butalso, this person really, on the other side of the picture,had he put it on the track five times, would have hadapproximately five more mock-up operations. He was hungryfor the one or he would never have had it. Now he adds fivemore operations to it and this just about balances thebudget. Now he can be happy about it.

But people who complain about things having been done tothem are motivator hungry. And what you do is mock upthings - bad things - happening to them, particularly eating.And people who talk all the time about the horrible thingsthey've done are overt hungry. Now, these are two commonphrases and something you should remember and use inprocessing. You use these things continually.

I point out how new this data is. It is on the 8-80 tapesof - it's on the 8-80 tapes that were given - the Phoenixlecture series - June of 1952.

Now, motivator hungry, overt hungry - and these two thingsturn up in every preclear.

If you're just doing an office practice, which is to saysomebody comes in and five minutes... The best way to do anoffice practice, by the way - if you're just going to do anoffice practice and interview people - is, at this stage ofthe game, never give an hour's processing or two-hours'processing. Process them until you've gotten some good.Because as far as remedial techniques are concerned, youcould actually whiz along on most of the cases too fast tooccupy much time.

Somebody comes in, he's got a sore foot and you fix up hissore foot and - pam! - that's that. How long did it take you to fix it up? Well, it might have taken you two hours to fix it up and it might have taken you six sessions to fix it up, but that would be a very rough case. With techniques which you are learning and using right now, you should be able to fix it up in ten or fifteen minutes.

That's about it. That's about all it amounts to.

All right. You got that classification?

Okay. What's wrong with a person who complains about hisparents all the time?

In terms of what I just said. What's wrong with him?

Female voice: He's motivator hungry.

That's right. From whom?

Male voice: His parents.

That's right. The parents. How do you remedy it?

Female voice: Giving him. much more of the same.

Hm. In mock-up form?

Female voice: Yes.

That's right.

All right. What would you do, to somebody who sat aroundand told you the brutal things he had done to people?

Female voice: Have him mock up overts.

Mm-hm. That's right. He's just trying to run it out.Complete identification.

What is the name for what is wrong with him?

Male voice: Overt hunger.

That's right. Overt hunger.

Okay. Now, what is wrong with somebody who complains abouthis wife all the time? What's wrong?

Male voice: It's motivator hunger.

Mm.

Male voice: ... from his wife.

That's right. And how do you remedy it?

Male voice: Have him mock up his wife doing horrible things to him.

That's right! That's right.

Are we interested in what the actual condition of his pastis? No. That's right. Do we have to prove or demonstratethe fact that he actually was the guilty party in this case?

Female voice: No.

Of what alleged science is this the technique of?

Male voice: Scientology.

No, that's psychology that gives that other.

Male voice: Oh, you mean the proving - proving he's done something.

That's right. What alleged science? We've got psychologyand psychoanalysis and they point out to him that he isguilty. And this is nontherapeutic but it certainly keepsthe patients coming in for a long time.

All right. One other thing I want to say about gradientscales. Did it ever occur to you - I've just gone over BlackSpot Processing - did this truism ever occur to you? It's one of these terribly obvious things like "The fellow whosestomach is in bad shape is guilty of more eating than hehas been eaten." So that's obvious.

But is this as obvious: the gradient scale of creation anddestruction? Since I have heard several people hererecently mentioning a preclear and classifying him on thegrounds that he couldn't destroy or get rid of a mockup -and this is with great surprise to me.

Listen to this: gradient scale of creation and destructionfor those who cannot create and destroy. That is the remedyfor people who can't destroy mock-ups. Now, let's get that:the gradient scale of creation for those who can't createmock-ups and the gradient scale of destruction.

Now, what do you get him to destroy in the first place? Thebeginning of the gradient scale is nothing. "Now, let's putup a small spot of nothing there. Now let's create thissmall piece of nothing." The fellow's sure he's got a smallpiece of nothing. You say, "Now, uncreate it." Very well,he has created and destroyed nothing. All right. And wejust go on from there.

Now that - he has a persistent mock-up; he has a witch fromHaiti. Oh boy, he's going to get real wild! And he'll tellyou about this, finally, in confidence. If you run somepreclears on an E-Meter you'll be amazed how complex themind thinks it is. And you'll run them and you'll besurprised how long you could process somebody withoutfinding out some peculiar, horribly interestingmanifestation, such as, there is a witch doctor from Haitiwho beats a tom-tom on his left shoulder every Fridaynight. And this is really what he's worried about. He isn'teven able to look straight at what manifestation he'sworried about, you see? He doesn't tell you about it.

So I normally put a preclear - if I'm processing - to go forbroke on the processing of creation and destruction, I say,"Well, now, is anything worrying you?" And if the needleremains relatively calm I know that I've got a very fastcase. But that doesn't happen. The guy staggers around andfools around and all of a sudden you get a stuck needle,see. You just - bah-boom! You just faced him right in on it.

"What is it? What is worrying you? Is it in the field ofyourself and your physical behavior? Is it in the seconddynamic? Is it about children? Is it about your wife? Is itabout your parents? Is - does it have anything to do withany group, any social group, any club, any sport club,anything like that? No? Well, all right. Does it have to dowith a political unit? Does it have to do with thegovernment? Or any government? Or any type of government?Well, does it have to do with men? Does it have to do withwomen? Does it have to do with objects? Objects? Does ithave to do with spaces? Does it have to do with energyaction of any kind? Have to do with time?" Of course itwould have to do with time.

And then we say, "Well, does it have to do with animals?Does it have to do with insects?" Just go on up the rackthen, of the - pardon me, I got those two in reverse. "Haveto do with animals? Have to do with insects?" first - ifwe're going up the dynamics - and then "Does it have to dowith mass, energy, space, matter, time," and so on.

And then, for goodness sakes, don't omit this one: "Does ithave to do with ghosts? Ghosts? Spirits? Guardian angels?Guiding thetans? Christ? Buddha? Mohammed? Does it have todo with any great teacher? Any religion?" And then, ofcourse, "Does it have to do with God?" And for heaven'ssakes, we talk so much about eight being God, don't forgetthat it's also the Devil! "Does it have to do with Satan?The Devil?" and so on.

Well, somewhere along the line this guy will do a slap. Andyou can normally expect a slap of some sort around dynamicseven - spirits. You. can really expect a slap. If he'sterribly bad off youll get slaps around God. And when youget no slaps anywhere except on seven and eight, this guy'salmost dead.

Well, how do you remedy these things? Use gradient scale.You get him to create and destroy.

Now the reason creation and destruction will stick withauditors, and so on, and they - and we more or less walkedaway from the technique in general use, was not becauseit's unworkable. Believe me, you find this guy's got aconsistent image in front of him. Well, don't use - don'tuse Admiration Processing or something. You've got animmediate problem on your hands. Till you clear up thatproblem you've got trouble.

He always can see his first wife or something like that. Healways has a picture of his first wife. Or he has it everyonce in a while - a picture of his first wife. Real trouble.And this worries him. It throws him off track. You try toget him to make a mock-up - there's this damn picture upthere. And he may never tell you about it. That means hecan't destroy her He tried and he tried and he tried. Heused strychnine, but he didn't have enough - enough courageto put it in the coffeepot. He used this, he used that. Andhe wanted to beat her to death - anything. Because thepolice - then he got tangled with police. And every time hewanted to beat her head in, he thought to himselt "Well, Ican't do that because they'll put me in the electric chair,these arbitrary dogs." And maybe this woman was very,very, terrifically liable - I mean, for everything. But atthe same time, it wasn't done, you see? He couldn't destroyher.

Or he couldn't destroy Papa. Papa used to beat up Mama allthe time. And he tries to destroy Papa; he can't destroyPapa. Or he tries to - he can't destroy Mama. And Mama usedto bang his head in all the time. Something may be going onin this case.

Well, how do you get him to do this? Well, you get thefurthest object that you can think of that would vaguely beconnected with this picture or persistent image - vaguelyconnected with it. The tiniest thing. Now, you could gethim to destroy a shoelace - an old, moldy, broken shoelace.And then you finally get him to destroy one of Papa's shoes(if it's Papa, let's say). And then you get him to destroyone of Papa's shoelaces and then get him to destroy one ofPapa's shoes. And then you get him to destroy something orother that - well, there was a blade of grass which had beenmowed off Papa's grave and was thrown on a pile somewhere,and you get him to destroy that blade of grass like that,you see? Now you get him to destroy more and more and more,until all of a sudden, my God, he can put Papa up there andblow him up with the wildest abandon. And it may be justone character on the whole case and the case just goespoom! Just falls apart. Who cares. He created and destroyed.

Somebody rushed in to me one time and told me that a casethat was in terrible condition could create and destroyanything! And therefore this proved that the technique wasnot indicative of anything. And when I started to getkickbacks from the field of this character, I skipped it,as far as the field at large is concerned. This means it'snot a good process.

I checked this case later. Yeah, this case could destroy andcreate, in terms of thought postulates, anything, butcouldn't get a picture of a single one of her family! Butshe would tell the auditor...

"Now, all right. Get a mock-up of your mother"

"Okay. I have one."

She didn't see any mock-up of her mother She would justsay, "Well, I can't really see these things, so I'll justassume one is there." Naturally she hadn't had a mock-up ofher mother.

Well, how would you get her to assume this? Simply bygradient scales of processing. And the other, remember: agradient scale of perception for those who cannot see. Yousee how easy that one would be? A gradient scale ofperception for those who cannot see. Have them see thingsthey can see. They can't see in mock-ups; have them seesomething they can see. And then have them see a couple ofmore of these. And then have them see a lot more of these.And then have them see these in various locations. And thenfinally - everybody's always got a picture - and then havethem see these in bigger and then smaller and then turnthem around and look at the backside of them. Whateverthey're looking at, you see? And you just keep on.

[End of lecture.]

1st ACC - 06

Tape number 658 on the Flag Master List.

OCCLUSION, RESOLVE OF

An auditing demonstration given on 8 October 1953

And this is the afternoon of the 8th of October. And wewant to take up here some material. And I'm going to giveyou a demonstration this afternoon. People have been overlyworried about many things in cases, if cases are very, veryeasy to break one way or the other.

And do you mind if I mention this?

Male voice: No.

In Dianetics we knew the velocity of the grief charge and Isaid even now you can run them out. It doesn't matter, butwe knew the velocity of this grief charge. Okay.

In Theta Clearing we are doing a different proposition. Itis not grammatical to say - say this, but most people - thesecond sentence here is not grammatical. The first sentenceis - it's not, "What are you afraid of?" Most people saythat, "What are you afraid of?" They go around looking ateach other and say, "What are you afraid of? What are youafraid of?"

This is like that "fighting nothing" deal, see, "What areyou afraid of?" That will never get anyplace. That is acomplete dead end because there is no what to be afraid of.

We started out with a person in a situation. And all thisas soon as we'd gotten to the vicinity of the locale, whichwas brought up as the happening locale, the locale wasawfully occluded. And we worked mainly upon geographicallocale and so forth. And I catered to the case a little bitand audited longer than I should, merely because I gotinterested. Auditors just never really should be interested, but I happened to be interested. And I'm generally very fascinated with a lot of the data that comes up, so I sometimes wander around in my auditing.

But in this particular case, the solution of the thing wasjust to blow up Massachusetts and get Massachusetts blowingthem up and admire Massachusetts and get it blown up. Notgo in for any specific thing at all. But I thought I'd - we'dunearth a little more data concerning this and get a littlemore alive.

But this particular run was interesting because it had anumber of occlusion moments. We had an occluded state andwe had an occluded this and we had an occluded that. Andafter we'd do a certain exercise for a very short time,such as run a concept or run an idea on something or other,why, we would get occlusion. The thetan, althoughexteriorized very, very well, very certainly, neverthelesswhere he was would get occluded and then he'd get unoccluded.

Now, what did that occlusion unocclude on? What did I tellyou to do that unoccluded it every time?

Male voice: It was if something was done to me, it occludedand then one day...This is the frailty of asking apreclear what happened.

Male voice: Yeah, that's right!

That's right. I'll just give another example here. Whohappens to have some small degree of occlusion at the moment?

Male voice: Small degree?

LRH: Bring your chair up here. Sit down.

PC: Thank you.

LRH: You're welcome. Which is the easiest direction to look?

PC: Straight ahead.

LRH: Straight ahead is the easiest direction to look. Is it black?

PC: Yep.

LRH: Okay. Start having somebody behind you throwingexplosions at you. Quite a distance away - enormousdistance away from you. Just get the idea of somebodythrowing big explosions at you.

LRH: Put two more explosions there where they are. Havethem there and have two explosions there too.

Got that?

PC: No, I get it from time to time.

LRH: All right, just keep putting explosions there.

Got it?

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Now have somebody else making you explode by puttingexplosions and the flash there.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: How is that?

PC: Well, they're really sailing now.

LRH: Hm?

PC: Seems like they're really sailing now.

LRH: Really sailing. Have you had this before?

PC: A similar thing to it; not quite like this.

LRH: Just different, huh?

PC: Just different.

LRH: Okay. Now, let's get this whole big mob of people downbelow admiring another preclear for being so terriblydifficult.

PC: Okey-doke.

LRH: Now, let's get a mob of you admiring a mob of preclears for being difficult.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Now let's get another mob.

PC: Another mob of me?

LRH: Mm-hm. Now let's get a mob of you and Haskell...

PC: Ha-ha.

LRH: ... a mob of you and Haskell admiring the gentlemanfrom New Orleans as a...

PC: I got it! I got it!

LRH: You got that? Well, get you admiring him.

Now get a mob of him admiring you for having been cleared by you.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Now get him walking off into the sunset, completely cleared.

PC: Beautiful ending.

LRH: Yeah. Now get all of your pre clears walking off intothe sunset, beautifully cleared. Get them all cleared on Book One.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Get them all cleared on Science of Survival.

[End of tape.]

1st ACC - 07

Tape number 658 onthe Flag Master List.

PSYCHOTICS, CLASSIFICATION OF CASES

A lecture given on 9 October 1953

[Clearsound.]

Okay. This morning, which is the 9th of October, we have totake a good solid look at what happens to cases and whatcases are all about and what processing is all about.

The only reason... Actually, the most interesting case isthe Step I case. This is the most interesting case,immediately. You get the Step I case - pain! - out they go, and the person becomes quite interested in life and it'sinteresting processing - it's very interesting processing and so forth. It's very razzle-dazzle.You take a Step I,exteriorize him, then you run the rest of the steps.

But the funny part of it is, is - that's - that's interestingbut a Step I, actually, has just got a little more life inhim. He's a little more closely into life in general andexistence in particular, and he has a considerable amountof spare energy. That's what's happening in his case.

Well now, this case is quite interesting in that anyprocess will work on it - any process, it doesn't matter. Even Freudian psychoanalysis occasionally will work on it.Psychology and so forth, when they've gotten any result atall were working on this case. Of course, they didn'tdifferentiate between person and person. They were - therewas no breakdown or examination. Nobody had looked. Thatwas essential in the observation of the mind - for somebodyto look. And possibly if I've done anything at all, I camealong and took a look. And that's about all.

But the biggest piece of work as far as a therapy isconcerned that's been done here in the last twenty-fiveyears is a classification of cases. There was a fellow bythe name of Craplan - I mean, Kraepelin, excuse me. He was aGerman. He put into existence the only category ofinsanities. He just - so you see how low scale this operationwas: we put into existence a category of insanities butdidn't put into existence a category of human beings.

Well, anyway, this fellow Kraepelin-K-r-a-e-p-e-l-i-n - up and did the most remarkable interlocked classification of cases you ever wanted to see; it's just fabulous. Thatthing, it goes on, there's just box after box into whichyou could slip this category or that category orcross-category. And goes on for page after page ofdescriptions of what these categories are. And the lastcategory on the thing - the last category on the thing is"other classifications." It's like the secretary who keptan excellent file system - she kept excellent filesystem - except all the drawers were empty except the onemarked "miscellaneous." And that is exactly the state ofinsanity classification in the world today: all the drawersare empty except "other classifications."

Male voice: Did you read about the latest meeting of thePsychiatric Association where Menninger recommended thatthey abandon all those classifications and only classifythem as to the intensity of the insanity?

Oh, really?

Male voice: Yeah.

Have you read about the one about the stockyards? Have youread about that meeting out in the stockyard? They got abunch of pigs in from Iowa and they had - they had a factthat they had to be hit over the head faster.

Wonderful. Wonderful. Well, they wouldn't know an insaneperson if they saw one, unless they looked in the mirror.But they...

Male voice: Time article - that's Time magazine data.

Yeah. Well, that's their best - that's their officialjournal: Time magazine. They don't have another one.There's one up in Canada that's published and it says it'sthe journal of the American Psychiatric Association butit's just up in Canada. It doesn't do anything. It won'tprint any data. Any article sent to it and so forth kind ofgets tabled, too.

Well, regardless of their undoubtedly sincere efforts, theyhave modified this Kraepelin school of classification andbrought it down to a point where the other classificationis slightly bigger. And their - this was - this was the waythey were looking at human beings.

Now, the other way they were doing it was with IQ; theyclassified everybody according to IQ. We've made aninteresting finding on the subject of IQ. We talk about IQbecause out in the public, people know what you mean whenyou say IQ, they think. They think you mean somebody that'ssmart. Well, they themselves know when people are smart andknow when people are dumb and so when they say high IQ,they're taking the immediate tabulation of the mind withregard to IQ.

But these tests that have to do with IQ are quitefascinating. The highest IQ cases that were discovered -British schools - it was found that they could not mock up anything they hadn't seen. Now, here was - here'ssomething very interesting. We had a high IQ case ofa - here was a boy and he could mock up the teacher and hecould mock up a glass of beer, because he'd seen both ofthose; but he couldn't mock up the teacher drinking a glassof beer because he'd never seen that. This boy's gradeswere very poor and his IQ was very high. And if you lookthrough American universities you will find this relativelyuniform. You'll find continually - you'll find always thedean has these IQ cases on the carpet saying, "You had avery high IQ according to your psychology department testsand so you haven't any good grades and so we know you'renot studying." And this is routine.

Now, IQ by their classification has nothing really to dowith figuring out a single problem. What it has to do withis eidetic memory. Now, although eidetic memory is theindex of intelligence quotient in most cases, you've got agradient scale of it.

In the tests, by the way, just in passing, if you don'tthink it is eidetic memory, you know these comparisonlevels: "Find the square that is the same as the othersquare"? You know, that's one of their standard questions.The fellow has to carry the image of the square across tothe other square. So you have just a momentary eideticproposition; they're still measuring an eidetic situation.

There is no test anywhere that says, "Look. What is this?"See, "What's this?" There isn't one where you have apig - picture of a pig or a picture of a psychiatrist orpicture of a dog, anything like that - and it says, "What isthis?" and you write down "psychiatrist" or "dog" or "pig"or whatever it is. There's no such test. You have to carryfrom one side of the column to the other side of thecolumn - you have to carry a picture over to the other sideand compare it to some other picture. And, of course, thisis not necessarily the way people think at all.

Now, psychology, although it uses this as its sole medium -it's whether or not a person can remember what the modelthey satisfy applies to and all that sort of thing, and youstudy a chart that gives you the parts of a heart and thenthey give you another piece of paper and you mark down theparts of the heart on the other piece of paper. This isintelligence - real rea- real rare. And when it's not that,it's arithmetic, which is essentially the same thing: it'show well a person can hold an eidetic picture and re -misidentify it with another one or something.

This gorgeous system is completely cancelled by thestatement of psychology itself in its textbooks, and itsays in these textbooks that eidetic recall is possible inchildren and morons. And although they have - they have intwo or three books - rare books, hardly ever used inpsychology departments - they... And remember that you canfind an awful lot of stuff out across the world - you canfind a lot of Dianetics, you can find a lot of Scientologyin terms of a sentence here and a line there.

What is the main line of action? And you won't find bookswhich contain this sort of thing kicking around in thesedepartments. You can always find a rare book someplacethat's got a line in it, but is this the book that's beingused? That's something else. Just to prevent this from - sortof thing from getting too confused, by the way, I took thelast psychology textbook - University of Illinois - off thepress. And it went off the press immediately beforeDianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The lastbook of that issue went pop! pop! through the board machineof the American Book Company and the - immediately, the firstbook of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health wentthrough the hardboard machine. In other words, these twoeditions -the last textbook on psychology and the firsttextbook on sanity and reason - followed each other throughthe printing presses of the American Book Company.

Well, in view of the fact that I knew in a few yearspsychology would have "known it all, all the time" andwould have had it mixed up, I took care to pick up the lasttextbook that went off the press immediately beforeDianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, then. AndI have that textbook today.

Very interesting thing. Said man must adjust himself to hisenvironment - that's the first thing it says. And it goes onand on and on. And they're all slavery tenets: All talentimmediately derived from neurosis. Oh, it's just anincredible book. I mean, you wouldn't put a bad book likethat in people's hands and yet that was psychology.

Psychology today is getting deluded. So is medicine. Idon't care what they're calling Dianetics - it's startingto pop up all over the place. You get Reader's Digest now,three years after the fact - two and a half years after thefact - carried a medical article on prenatals. You've got -oh, there are numerous, numerous examples; there's no reason to go into it. Well, this just demonstrates how you can poisona whole culture with reason. All right.

Here's eidetic recall, though. Nobody added up eideticrecall or classified eidetic recall beyond saying it was apart of idiots and morons, and somebody had made some testson eidetic recall and found out people could recall thingsthat they had heard or seen.

Now, they tried to apply something like psychoanalysis - theyapplied it as a gunshot. They did not classify - they did notclassify any case according to manifestation. Now, that'sgreat, isn't it? They classified the case according to - Idon't know - cribbage or something of the sort; it was thatweird.

They'd give him an examination. He was supposed to writethings. There's something known as the "Szondi." It's aboutas close as it comes to "looking" as an IQ test. The Szondiis terribly interesting because they have a picture of - Idon't know how many - it's several sets of insane people. Andthe patient is supposed to look over these sets of insanepeople and find out which one he likes best - of course, hedoesn't like any of them - out of each set. And then this isclassified and marked on a little scale. And then the nextday he does the same thing. And the next day he does thesame thing. I - it's more complicated than that, of course. I mean, it's which one he likes best and which one he likesleast and you take the three that are the intermediateand - I don't know, it's real weird.

He does this day after day, see. And then you know how theyadjudicate this at the end? Well, they find out which facehe most favored. And this face, of course, is a type ofinsanity because these pictures were taken in Germanasylums. And this type of insanity, then, is evidently - youwould say immediately that's what he's got. No, that isn'tthe case. You'd think it would have something to do withthat. But it doesn't. It depends upon the sensitivity ofthe operator.

They spend years training a Szondi operator and then theclassification then depends upon his sensitivity. I can'tquite find out what the Szondi test has to do with theadjudication on the part of the operator. And I've lookedin vain in the textbooks. I've tried to find out what thepictures had to do with it and I can't find out. I keepasking questions - embarrassing questions like "Well, now,let's see. If he uniformly favored schizophrenic faces,would he then have schizophrenia?"

"No, it would show an index of inclination toward a certaintype of introversion manifested by a petrograd over on theother side of the billywomps."

And you say, "No, no, no. No, no, no. We're - I hope we'restill talking in English or German or something. Now, let'sgo over this again slowly." Doesn't matter how many timesyou go over it slowly. Looking at all these tests is justlike talking to a gibbering idiot. Nobody got in and lookedat classifications of cases. Because nobody had a process,I guess.

But the idea was - the idea was that you could transfer to a piece of paper - now, get this - you could transfer to a piece of paper certain reactions on the part of a person and then by some other system take the piece of paper and make it tell you. See? You get the unreality of this? In otherwords, we had to go into symbols before we could look.

The bog-down of psychology, the bog-down of language,communication and everything else, is an emphasis onsymbols to make them more important than anything real.The symbol becomes reality. And the symbol then isreality. And you'll go around and find that doctors willvery, very - they'll look at you and think they're sayingsomething intelligent. And they will say, "Well, thisperson has erysipelas.

And you say, "What is erysipelas?"

And they say, "Erysipelas is a disease."

"Well, what does it do?"

Well, they can tell you more or less what erysipelas does.

But you say, "Well, all right. Now that we've got theclassification of what the thing - what is the rest of thetreatment?"

"Well, he has erysipelas."

You say, "Wait a minute. What are you going to do for him now?"

"Oh, I don't know. Some rest, something of the sort, and so on."

But this fellow was working and these clinics were workingand these technicians all down the line with radiographsand everything else were working to find out what was wrongwith a human being. And then they finally came up with thefact he had erysipelas and then they forget him.

That tells you a very fascinating manifestation: They wantto find out the significance of something and then they'vegot the significance of it the second they have a name forit. All they got to have is a name for it. If you've got aname for it, that's by labeling.

Now, you very often find this in a case: A person has beengiven a name and so now he's solved. You've solvedsomething by giving it a symbol. Well, that's really to bogit down madly.

Now, just look at that. Your case that you look at in theauditing chair: the first thing that's wrong with him, ofcourse, is that he's bogged down with symbols. And as hehas been bogged down with symbols, in direct ratio to theamount he's been bogged down with symbols - direct ratio -why, the further down the number of steps he is. And so bylooking at the manifestations of how they were trying toclassify insanity itself and the modus operandi ofpsychology and medicine, we could come around with that;and looking, we could find on the one hand that we hadsymbols as the main difficulty. And then we found out thatpeople were buried deeper and deeper into symbolization.And as they are buried deeper and deeper into symbolization, they become less and less alive. That's really about all you can say about it.

Now, your - actually, your Step I case is not very deep intosymbolization. But your wide-open case, which is below theoccluded case by a long distance - dub-in and so forth - iscompletely bogged and almost gone on symbolization. Inother words, this eidetic quality reechoes at the bottom ofthe scale. So don't make a mistake about it. Don't make amistake.

If this person is giving you all the manifestations of"Well, I don't know," or "I guess you could say that," andthey can't work, and they're - they don't work and theyoperate in various ways low on the Tone Scale, such as aslow communication lag (that's the most reliable indexwe've got - I'll tell you why in a minute). As we go down the line, why, we find this person is slower and slower, lessand less able to move. They're getting down into symbolsbut in earnest. And a word to a psychotic is like a blockof stone. You ask them about a word - poom. Another thingthat goes wrong with them is their sense of humor.

We get this person going down scale, and if we could weighwords - wonderful phrase to appear in a bank - if we couldweigh words, we would find that the word of a Step I hadvery close to zero weight - very close to zero, probably one microgram; a word probably was one microgram, maybe lessthan that. But a Step VII, a word weighs at least two orthree hundred pounds. See? Now, just - just notice that asyour cases go down the line. Now, that's really the onlything that sanity has in common.

But there is a curve on the track. Of course, there alwayswould be. There is a real curve on the track that has to dowith occlusion. And the occluded case is not necessarily astep of a case. Occlusion is a condition. So that you couldhave a Step I with a broken leg and you could have a Step Iwith an occlusion. Same - same deal, see.

It doesn't mean that that Step I's words weigh more. Now,we aren't departing from our system. You could restore toan occluded case - you could restore to him his sonic andvisio, something like that, and then look around promptly - you know, I mean, you get away with this blackness, you get the blackness out of the road and you all of a sudden find out that he's occupying VI. Or you could all of a sudden find out he was occupying I.

The gradient scale is the gradient scale of the reality ofrecall. The gradient scale of the reality of recall is thegradient scale of the weight of words. So we start from aStep I and recall is very good and very sharp and veryunnecessary; to a Step VII, where recall is so importantthat it is more important than present time, which puts himin the past.

Now, this is a scale not directed toward - SOP 8 scale is not directed toward classification of cases. We didn't put it together for that. It is a classification of techniques to resolve cases. And because of this curve on the track, itisn't a perfect comparison. The curve is simply blackness.

The blackness is not - get this very plainly - the blackness is not, no time, an index of the IQ, the recall ability, theoperation or the level of motion of a case. It's completelyunreliable. Because there are black-field cases that arejust high up and raring to go. And there are black-fieldcases in the insane band. And there are cases which, thesecond you get rid of that occlusion, they exteriorize- bang! And there are cases which, after you've exteriorizedthem they operate beautifully, but remain occluded whenthey're in their head.

So, don't keep falling across occlusion as the monitoringvalue. I'm just trying to - trying to give you that becausethe occluded case will impress upon you harder than it'sworth, see? This occlusion is taking a greater importancethan it has. And if we wish to understand a clear path onthe gradient scale of sanity, it isn't occlusion that ispart of that track. You understand? Occlusion is amanifestation.

Now, we'll take a Step I and we will take some black tar orblack paint and we will paint his face with it. Now, whenwe've done this, does this alter his IQ? Does it? No, itdoesn't alter his IQ.

Well, this occlusion is just a foolish kind of energy andyou can find it turning on suddenly on almost any case andturning off suddenly. And what it is, is a manifestation ofenergy which is not necessarily a absence of anything - it is itself. Get that very plainly. It is itself. It is anotherperception; it is another kind of energy. And just becausewe don't see very much black energy traveling down powerlines is no reason why energy can't be black. That would bethe dirtiest trick of all: to invent a black energy whichwould make somebody invisible in space. That would be thereal slippy one. Or an energy which would blind somebody'smock-up in an awful hurry and he wouldn't even know it wasarriving until it hit him. And that energy would be filledfull of all sorts of things: occasionally lots of pain,occasionally lots of tiredness. In other words, there arevarious kinds of blackness. So we're looking at justanother piece of energy.

Now, your wide-open case, or your - or your Step I, alike,don't even - the wide-open case often does, but the Step Ialmost never - they don't wince at a white explosion. Butbrother, they would certainly be upset at a black one. Andthat's why it's something you mustn't look at, is becauseit's a very painful type of energy. And it's just anotherpiece of energy.

Now, white explosions carry the immediate blackness whichsucceeds them as just simply an after-absence - anafter-absence of light. And it looks intensely black. Butthis would lead one to believe immediately that there wasno such thing as a black energy, that it was just anafter-absence or burned-out particles. Well, - to explain itto people, I have often said, "Well, that's the case." ButI'm telling you, for your edification, that there is such athing as a black piece of energy which is not a burned-upparticle; it's real live and it's real hot.

See, it's not - just because we have the sun around all thetime and we're looking at the sun and this particular partof the universe has an awful lot of white glowing energy init, we overlook this black glowing energy. Oddly enough,you can see almost as well with black energy as you canwith white energy. You get some kind of an idea: if you hada black radar beam which would yet register on a screen, itwould still give you the outline of the oncoming ship orplane. It wouldn't matter what color the radar beam was aslong as it could go out and reflect.

So what it is, is motion of particles we're interested inin terms of energy, not the color of the particle. Get thatvery, very, very sharp; we're not interested in the colorof the particle. There's red colored particles and greencolored particles and blue colored particles and blackcolored particles and yellow colored particles, and theyall alike perform like particles.

The black in this universe becomes frightening because aperson gets accustomed to seeing with white. So you movesomebody who is accustomed to black energy suddenly intothis universe and he becomes reaccustomed to seeing withwhite, and then all of a sudden he'll realize he's got alot of blackness around and he gets very puzzled andconfused and he doesn't know what to do with it. Becausethe after-image of white - a white flash ... People say,"What is the significance?" Well, it doesn't follow that ablack particle only comes when you have a flash. It doesn'tcome only after the flash. Now, we'll go into that in a moment.

We've detoured for a moment by talking about this level ofcase. I'm just trying to show you that a person's recall inblack, theoretically, is as much as a person's recall inwhite energy. You got it? You got a big difference here.

I said to a fellow one time, I said, "Now, get a black in acoal cellar shoveling coal at midnight."

And he said, "You know," he said, "that's the realest thingI ever saw." This case was what you'd call a Fifth Invader,just as a classification of cases. They all respond to thisclassification, that's the only reason we say that case wasa Fifth Invader case. There are Fourth Invader people andFifth Invader people. This is just E-Meter stuff we'reusing; we don't care anything about the history of theFifth Invader Force and its first incursion into the MESTuniverse, Galaxy 12. That's just history and we're notinterested in history; we're interested in conditions andthe remedying of conditions - what a big difference.

You don't have to know anything about history to remedy acondition. For instance, you don't have to know anythingabout the history of the city hall to blow it up. Well,when you're really on the line with a good technique, youdon't have to know anything about a preclear to blow hiscase up. That would be the optimum technique, wouldn't it?You'd blow his case up and leave him with good recall andthe ability to handle energy and happy and unfettered.Well, swell. That's the way to go about that if you couldjust blow it up in some fashion or another so that - see?See, that'd be real, real good. You wouldn't have to knowhis history, would you?

Well, many people bog down upon Fifth Invader, FourthInvader, the past lives and so forth because they're moreinterested in history than they are in condition.

Now, they very often will bog down on these things whentheir own condition starts to get solved. Now, you'dthink, by the way, that a person would be more concernedwith the past early in his processing than late. But thereis a time as you go forward when a Step I becomes intenselyinterested in his track. Well, you have to sort of nursehim through that. The dickens with his track. It's leftgrief charges and every other doggone thing strewn aroundon it and it's quite important to him and one shouldn'tjust sneer at it and negate it, sure. But the same way,you're trying to blow up certain energy manifestationswhich are antipathetic to the optimum survival of thepreclear. All right.

When we get down to the problem of classification of cases,we are going to run square into this: You, and yourtendency, will be to say, "He is an occluded case andtherefore Step V and therefore his sanity is so-and-so."You're very liable to do that, see. And that's - that'snot - not right. His case solves at the fifth level.

Now, SOP 8, then, from I to VIII as it was - I to VII,rather. An additional technique we won't worry about;that's when they're dead - calling the dead back. I've justleft it there, you see, waiting for a good, easy techniquethat might do this. Anyway, I'm - I think in - I wrote astory one time called "The Case of the Friendly Corpse,"where a fellow brought a fellow halfway back to life. Itwas very messy because he kept rotting. Anyway. All right.

Now, don't use, then, for your pure classification ofcases - if you must have a classification of cases, do notuse SOP 8, Steps I to VII as the classification of cases.It is simply an approximation of techniques at various caselevels. See? That's all it is.

Let's instead draw another set of case levels and call themA, B, C, D, E, F, G. And this would be the gradient scaleof sanity. And it would be the weight of the word and thecommunication lag. You - it would be the plot of reaction time.

It would be also the plot of symbols. Because the handlingof the symbol is the communication index. How fast does theperson handle a symbol? And if the symbol is heavier andheavier and more and more powerful and important to him,he of course handles it slower and slower.

Well, let's look at the gradient scale. And we've alreadygot this gradient scale and it's in the Tone Scale andthat's been out since Science of Survival. And there's yourgradient scale of sanity, which is the gradient scale ofcommunication lag, which is the gradient scale of howheavy symbols are, which is the gradient scale of how farwe've departed from looking.

Now, let's classify a symbol. A symbol is that thing whichexists as a substitute for that thing which is. Now, youcould then mess around and say, "Well then everything is asymbol." No, a symbol has this highly specializedclassification: It is something which stands for a thingwhich is real.

A symbol is also a communication substitute for a realobject. You cannot send the Empire State Building over atelegraph line. And so you would send the word Em- wordsEmpire State Building - the words Empire State Building.That's real tricky. But don't - don't omit this. The verybest way to do it would be to send it over a televisio lineAnd you would send a picture of the Empire State Building.

Ideographs are themselves very sane languages. Ideograph'sa tremendously sane language. It's just a symbol whichalmost is the object, you see. It - they just send a pictureof the object as near as they can manage it. Now, as thatideograph begins to decline, it begins to specialize. Now,you can trace in the Chinese language - if you've everstudied Chinese, and some of you may have - you can trace the word man. And the word man began with a picture of a manand then it be - had a dot, a slash, an inverted V at thebottom and a crossbar. And that today is written with justa little more stylization and is still the picture of a man.

This makes the difficulties of something like three hundredthousand characters rather than a working language of - thecollege student uses in this country of; I think, three tofive hundred words. And the college student uses three tofive hundred words; a truck driver uses about fifteenhundred words; janitors use about twenty-five hundred. Youget it? Anyway, the task of learning three hundred thousandwords is a very difficult one.

So, our whole problem in classification of cases is how farthe symbol has gotten from the reality. But that's only forclassification, it isn't for therapy. The mistake is toprocess symbols. You start processing symbols and you getfurther and further and further away from it. Now the very,very lowest you can go - just get this fairly clearly: toget a case to advance rapidly, you can't go into thesymbolization of words as a practical measure as a process,if you want fast results. You can on very slow results.

Now, you can get a thought or a postulate. And that is thelowest level of thought - postulate. That would be about asfar south as you could go to get fast results.

We're way above Dianetics: The Modern Science of MentalHealth which went into the processing of symbolization. Dida good job of it, too; took a long time. And only made,when you got through, Homo sapiens. And of course, Homosapiens kept realizing he could be more, so a person afterhe'd had Dianetic processing would keep trying to charge upthe line higher and higher and higher. And he's in bettershape than any other Homo saps around him, but this isn'tgood enough. And he's just got to get out and get free andbe exteriorized and go around and have a good time and nothave a lot of the bad things in the society knocking himaround that could. In other words, he wanted to get out ofthe level of - and the swim of agreement.

Well, the number of people who want to get out of the swimof agreement, much fewer than the number of people whowant to stay in it. Most of these people walking around downhere, they don't know they're in any trouble. They haven'tgot any idea; you'd have to educate the hell out of them.They know they're going to die and go to hell and thisisn't trouble - this is just what you accept. And thisis - this is it. And they're trying like mad to agree withtheir neighbor. They think they're out of agreement withhim or something. Of course, the harder - the harder they try to agree with him, the further they're going to get fromhim. And they're going down a dwindling spiral; it's justgoing to diminish with very great rapidity.

Well, all right. Let's take, then, as what we have here -rather than wander around on it any further, let's justtake a look at the gradient scale of sanity (this is notthe gradient scale of processing); and find out that wehave in it, as an index of the gradient scale of sanity,the gradient scale of motion - first index. Second index:gradient scale of space. Third index: gradient scale ofsymbols. Fourth index: the weight of a word, which is tosay, the communication lag in this society of the person.The communication index - the weight of the word.

But that's a little bit different than the lag. If you foolaround with many preclears you will find out that some ofthem get these words out by backing up... They get - theycall the van and storage company and they get the truckbacked up and they get several movers and each one of themgrabs hold of a corner of this word and they get blocks andtackles on the thing and they get it out there one way orthe other and knock the stairs to pieces and so forth. Andwhen they get down into the truck, why, they pack it upvery, very carefully and get their bills of lading on itand so forth. And then they ship it across the room to youand the back of the truck is opened and they get it out.And it's - it's really wonderful. They actually get down towhere they're actually handling the most heavy objects youever heard of.

Therefore, they specialize in an automaticity. They getsome kind of a channel going, which is the moving vansetup, you see, and they've really substituted a very, veryheavy assembly line in its place - pardon me, an endless -belt system or something - and they've put this endless beltaround permanently on people, and these words slide ondown. You'll find out the words are just chatter. They'revery, very light; they mean very little. And so thischatter serves as conversation.

You go into the insane asylum and you'll find out that theywill just go endlessly over and over and over a certainline of chatter. That's because it's endless - belted and cango out to everybody; but they couldn't handle a real word.They've just got a ridge set up there and it just keepschattering. They dramatize, in other words.

Now, the words they're really getting rid of are notcommunication. And when we say "communication," we have tohave a meaningful interchange which has an understanding onboth sides, and that's a communication. A person is out ofcommunication many times even when he is operating with abarrage of words. Have you ever kept on talking sometimeand realized that you were completely out of communicationwith who you were talking to?

Now, the concern over communication deepens as the A, B, C,D, E, F, G level advances - concern over communications.Communications get terribly important. Too - and then theyget too important to pass on. They're just getting heavier.You'd think they had real mass.

It gets fascinating what will happen in comm systems whereyou slide in people at various levels of the Tone Scale.And what do you know, this is an actual operating commsystem that has little pieces of paper with words on themgoing through it. And you put on the various posts - I'vemade this test - you put on the various posts, people who are measured up against the Tone Scale, and sure enough, the communication system operates at that point just like it says on the Tone Scale.

I made this as not an arbitrary level at all. I just notedhow a communication system was operating and then hadsomebody else classify the people in the communicationsystem without having observed how it was operating, andthe two of them merged. One is a carbon copy of the otherone. In other words, the behavior of the communication atthe various relay points in the cornmunication systemdepended upon the position on the Tone Scale of the peoplewho were handling those communications. And both of themwere separately assessed and they both made a blanket overeach other. They just went together.

People who were 1.5, they just stopped the communicationcold. Lots of reasons why they had to. They stopped it forthis and stopped it for that.

At 1.1, they would just shoot any communication that camein to them off in the wildest directions. They actuallyignored, and would sometimes just let go through withouteven observing, any routine or good news communication.They'd go right on by or they wouldn't pay any attention,see, to this. This 1.1 wouldn't pay much attention to thecommunication lines till all of a sudden a communicationcame by which was from 1.5 down. They paid a lot ofattention to 1.5 communications, a little less attention to2.0 communications. But the second that that came in theywould just shoot it wildly, see? It didn't matter if thiswas going to Poughkeepsie - it was scheduled to go toPoughkeepsie and they would shoot it down to St. Augustine,Florida. It was just a wild shot. Well, there you'relooking at a dispersal case.

And the grief communication would just sit there.Communication would come in. Good news communication, badnews communication - no differentiation, but the - except that the good news communications must have something bad about them. This meant that all was lost. Everything that came in meant "All is lost." Well, watching this behavior of communication systems is very revelatory.

We have, then, this other schedule. Now, you have bettermethods right now - I'm giving them to you right now - as to how to measure where and what your case is doing. A body - GE - is pretty solid and is not necessarily an index of the position of the thetan. We've already gone into that, too.

So our communication scale of the first chart that came outin Science of Survival is a communication of that compositeknown as Homo sapiens. But it had this strange doublecharacteristic. And I think everybody in the countryinterested in Dianetics at that time, who was in - able towrite, dropped me a note saying there was - that peopledouble-positioned on the scale. Quite obvious that theydouble-positioned. They'd be operating at one level andoperating at the other level almost simultaneously. Well,this is true: the GE occupies one level and the thetanoccupies another level. Furthermore, the thetan occupiesthe level of the GE when he is thoroughly interiorized andhis - he's under the duress of modified conduct because ofthe GE.

Now, you exteriorize him and he starts operating at his owntone level. And what do you know! It is quite often belowthe level of the GE. Don't just expect this as the happythought that everybody goes up Tone Scale the second youbring them out of their heads. No, they don't.

The process that addresses them shoves them, then, overinto the classification band - pam! You're over into the A,B, C, D, E, F, G curve. And you'll find out that thisthetan is noncommunicative, he's this, he's that and so on.And it's just been the educational pattern that the GE has - the GE itself - which has been holding this thetan up.

This becomes fabulous to some auditors. This - theyexteriorize this fellow and pam! This - there are two kindsof cases there: one is "leaving for Arcturus" and the otherone is "on the ceiling." They get stuck on the ceiling orthey just left for Arcturus.

And you'll find these are the two worst manifestations youwill run into and these are the two most frightening onesto the auditor. "He just left for Arcturus" has got to be,in England, a byword for such a case. It doesn't happenoften but you tell the guy to be three feet back of hishead or three miles or something of the sort, and he justkeeps going! This is the first time it has occurred tohim - it's occurred to him suddenly he can leave and abandonthis body. He can get away from his responsibilities andhe's on his way! And he really is going away, right way outinto space. He is heading for Arcturus. Not just the planetArcturus, but he's going that far, that order of magnitudeaway from his body.

And the other one, the one that gets stuck on the ceiling,is just a little bit higher on the gradient scale than "onhis way to Arcturus." And this person will come out and beupside down and get stuck on the ceiling and the room willget big and the room will get small and they will getfurious with you the second that you tell them to be rightside up, because they will fall to the ceiling. And they'vedisoriented in the subject of falling and gravity.

Well, that's another manifestation. There are lots of thesemanifestations but those two are the serious ones from theauditor's standpoint. Now, they're handled over on A, B, C,D, E, F, G. You just reclassify. What do you do there? Youshift from SOP 8 over to the scale of classifications andthen shift with that back into SOP 8. Now, you've got that?It's a little mechanical trick; save you a lot of troubleand bother.

What do you do? You've got this person, this personexteriorized at III. You say, "Ah, I've got a III on myhands." They exteriorize and pam! you've got an F thetan.Pam! - on his way. Something of that sort, see.

Oh, boy. Now, where do you shift back into SOP 8 with thethetan for theta processing? You just shift back into StepVI, of course. See how simple that is. In other words,we're up against two classifications of case. You just godown SOP 8, singing and strewing the daisies, having ahappy time of it. And you get this person down along theline and all of a sudden you got this person to Step V andyou ran Step V on them and they exteriorized. After you havethem exteriorized - pam! - you had a Step I. That's fine.Process them now with Step I and then go through the restof the processes as though they were Step I. That's easy, see.

All right. But we go down the line to - on this person,singing away, and we go down to Step level VI and we - hefinally exteriorizes on a bunch of Step level VI - SelfAnalysis "Remember anything real," and so forth.

And all of a sudden he exteriorizes and boy! he's justleaving, that's all. You ordinarily won't find thishappening, but we will say this is the test - he's just onhis way. When you bring him back in again, you know what heis. You've classified him over to G, see, and you'vebrought him back into SOP 8 again for a process. Now, whatprocess do you run on this person when you get him back?You run Step level VII.

Now, let's take another example. You exteriorize thisperson; this person's Step II. He's exteriorized and hisdemonstrated communications level, as far as you'reconcerned, he doesn't quite know, he's real cautious aboutit and he goes on like this. And you get this real slowcommunication lag and so forth immediately after he hasexteriorized. He exteriorized on Process II and all of asudden you're facing Process V. So you just go over toG - pardon me, you just go over to A, B, C, D, E and - let'ssee, it's A, B, C, D, E; that's right. You go over on A, B,C, D, E and you get to E and come back into the case on V,and you process him as a V, while he's exteriorized.

This answers the question, "What process do I immediatelyuse - immediately after exteriorization?"

Now, that question will be pressing you one of these daysand this is a mechanical way of going about it. Youexteriorized him and he suddenly was kind of different. Thecase behaved differently after exteriorization and how didit behave? Well, just get that good old Tone Scale to workover there and you just figure out how slow is he operating? And just take a shot at it. You don't have to be terribly precise about it, you see. How slow is he operating? How fast is he operating?

All of a sudden he goes into terrific motion. He's realhappy about the whole thing and so on and so on and so on.You say, "Well, I've put him out in the manic." No youhaven't; you put him into Step I. You just going throughnow in Step I. He was Step V, you got him out and you justcame over into Step I and ran Step I.

Now, what would happen with a Step III that was relativelyunchanged after he got out of his body? You would just comeback on Step III while he's out of his body; you'd just runlots more of it, wouldn't you? See?

This is a handy index of "What do I do now?" If you get nospecific, obvious change after exteriorization, youcontinue to run, while exteriorized, the step whichexteriorized him. If you get an obvious change slower, yougo to a lower step than that which exteriorized him and runit on him while he's exteriorized. If you get an obviouschange up to a faster speedup after exteriorization, youjust clip off into a higher step and run that on him whilehe's exteriorized.

How much do you have to know, now, in order to adjudicatethis? Did his behavior in terms of communication, abilityto move, vary up or down or stay still after exteriorization? If it varied up after exteriorization - he'd start communicating faster - go to a little higher step. And if it was a lot faster, just go on up and run Step I on him, all over. It doesn't matter where you exteriorized him, he's all of a sudden traveling at a fast rate of speed and he has good communication and very alert and very interested in existence.

Now you've exteriorized him, and instead of beinginterested in existence as he was while he was in his body,he is really out of contact. Oh, brother - he's just having a hell of a time for himself and so forth; he gets - hiscommunication gets slower. Well, then you'd go down in SOP8 to a lower level. Right?

And if there is no marked change, you slide overimmediately, when exteriorized, on the same process andyou just do more of it. Got it? This will work. There isn'tany doubt about it.

Now, I've said quite a bit in here about this businessabout occlusion. Now, it's not necessarily a condition ofsanity nor a classification of sanity. There are manyfactors enter into it. The GE could be occluded and soforth. Black energy, the presence of in this universe, doesnot promote the health and well-being of the thetan. Itmight very well be more handy than white energy in anotheruniverse.

Now, some of these people can handle black energy and somecan't. You get some preclears who all of a sudden, you say,"We got all that blackness?" (By the way, don't forget thiscan happen.) "Well, you got blackness all around you, huh?Well, why don't you just roll it all up and put it in aball and throw it in the fireplace? Well, you got thatdone? All right, be three feet back of your head."

"All right," the guy says, "I am."

Don't forget that that can happen. Because all it is, is adeposit of black energy; it might as well be a deposit ofwhite energy. In a wide-open case it would be a deposit ofpictures, all of them quite solid.

So you see what we're doing.

[End of tape.]

1st ACC - 08

Tape number 659 onthe Flag Master List.

OCCLUDED CASE

A lecture given on 9 October 1953

[Clearsound.]

Here on the afternoon of October the 9th, at 726 Cooper,and we've just had some reports that summed up, more orless, a couple of experimental runs we've had here on whatis commonly referred to as an "occluded case."

Now, we've been running on these cases some AdmirationProcessing and we've been giving a lot of explosions.

Any of these - in the business of trying to achieve atechnique effect on a preclear - business of trying toachieve an effect upon the preclear - I refer you to The Factors.

Somebody who is dead agin Scientology said that "He seemsto attach considerable importance to this, although wecan't figure it out ourselves." I dropped him back a note.I said, "That isn't all you can't figure out about it." Butanyway, the - yeah, that's right, and didn't mail the note.

I was quite struck by the fact that people who are veryafraid of effects being created upon them, and so on, seemto be very afraid of The Factors, into the fact that theydon't understand them and so forth. Actually, it's veryclean. There's been no alteration in The Factors. I mean,that's The Factors. And these were The Factors simplybecause they are the components back of the things preclears start running into. And I put them together like that, figured them out and let them roll.

Now, you have cause and effect and the cause is trying toachieve an effect and the effect is simply attention, sothat you have attention in between the cause and effectthere. You can't achieve an effect on anybody unless youget their attention. That's an interesting fact, if youlook around, a very simple fact. But attention belongs inthere really, but there isn't any reason to have it there;it says it later in The Factors. Just call to yourattention the fact that an effect cannot be achievedwithout getting somebody's attention.

Well, all right. Let's take a preclear with his attentionscattered all over the place and let's try to cause aneffect on him. Now, a person actually diverts and disperseshis attention so an effect can't be caused on him. Worksboth ways.

So here you have - an effort to raise the attention orawareness level of the preclear is fought immediately bythe fact that the preclear does not want his awarenesslevel picked up. Because when you pick up his awarenesslevel you make him more liable to an effect being causedupon him, right? You bring up an attention level, he thinksimmediately that you're going to increase pain on him. Oho!

Feeling is condensed looking. If his attention is verydispersed and he is very condensed, he feels pain very,very sharply and extremely. But if he does not have thisfactor of condensation, he does not feel the pain as hisawareness goes up; it's awareness of looking, notawareness of feeling. And he becomes less and less liableto pain the more and more aware he becomes. Your precleardoesn't know this and you needn't tell him. But that isyour preclear fighting feeling.

Fighting feeling is very, very strange. Anybody startsfighting feeling, they start condensing looking. They onlystart fighting feeling when they find their looking gettingcondensed. So the first thing they did was start to fightlooking and then they started to fight feeling. And afterthey'd fought feeling for a little while, they started tofeel pain.

It is the preclear's energy itself, which, by resisting theincoming condensation of particles, causes the pain - thesensation known as pain. The resistance of the GE causesthe pain. That's the preclear, as far as you're concernedwith Homo sapiens.

If the GE didn't resist, he wouldn't feel any pain. That'sthe old trick of the MEST universe. You get somebodyfighting something, he fights them more and more, he getsmore and more condensation; and the first thing you know itcan hurt him. He starts (quote) "feeling bad aboutsomething." And would you believe it, that very low on theTone Scale you can actually give somebody a piece of newsor you can give them some slight remark, and they get theactual sensation of pain. This is because they are down toa point where feeling is moving into thinking, and theirthinking is getting condensed. And when thinking gets toocondensed, it is a painful thought.

Now, if you can conceive of a juggernaut moving in onsomebody: At first it's at two light-years, and so on; itcondenses a little bit. And after he [it] comes in a ways,why, he can (quote) "feel the juggernaut." And when thejuggernaut comes in very, very close to him, indeed, hewould start to get a very solid sensation and when - he'dfeel the effort of the approach of the juggernaut. I begyour pardon, let me put the inner step in there. He'd - as it came in, he would start feeling emotional about thejuggernaut; he would be upset and afraid about thejuggernaut. And then as it came in closer he would feel theeffort of trying to push the juggernaut away long before ittouched any object from which he was operating, and we getin this wise emotion and effort. And then we get - what doyou know - as it pushes on in we get thinking. After thejuggernaut ran over him, he would sit there and think aboutit for a while.

Now, when he first starts looking, he is totally capable ofthinking about juggernauts very freely and they probablydon't worry him very much, except as their aesthetics mightimpinge themselves upon his lookingness. He is capable atthat extension of mocking up a sensation. But in starts thejuggernaut and from just looking we get into a band ofemotion about juggernauts, and from emotion we get intoeffort about juggernauts, and from efforts we get intophysical pain - and we're going down into the second band now about juggernauts - and when we get into physical pain we then get into thinking about juggernauts again. And thereis what's known as "circuitry": low-toned thinking. Whatkind of thinking is it? Well, it lies under pain.

There is, by the way, a whole series of these possible asyou saw in the Doctorate tapes. There isthought-emotion-effort, thought-emotion-effort,thought-emotion-effort, thought-emotion-effort.

And actually, there's a tiny, tiny gradient scale of effortlower than thinking about the juggernaut. There's also alittle emotion lower than thinking about the juggernaut,you see?

Pain, as we experience pain, lies at about 1.8 on our ToneScale. So you see where most of our preclears, when wefirst pick them up, are liable to be operating below thelevel of pain. So you start turning on their awareness andthey have the sensation that if somebody yanked somethingaway from them, it'd hurt badly.

Well, all right, let's get somebody carrying somethingaway, and we get the sudden stretch of condensation and itstarts stretching this band. And so from thinking about ithe goes into an effort about it which goes into an emotionabout it which goes into looking at it. As somethingtraveled away from him and stretched his lookingness, thenthis is what would occur; he would go through those bandsas he started on up the Tone Scale. There isn't any realreason why he should go up Tone Scale by stretching thebands - no. But that's why your preclear hates to give upanything and your psychotic is dismally, morbidly afraid ofgiving up anything.

As you watch a psychotic deteriorate or as you watch a veryneurotic person deteriorate or a normal - you watch themgoing on through life, they get in worse and worse shape,they become more and more concerned with pain in theirbody. And after they get down so low they go throughvarious bands of it. They get down so low they areconcerned about actual physical pain, and then they getconcerned about being hurt emotionally, and then they getconcerned about - afraid to think a thought because it's sopainful. This is - then they're afraid to let go of anythingbecause they know the hell of a time they had getting thatcondensed. They know this. If there's anything they know,they know that if they uncondensed, it's going to have togo back across the time track again; you're going to haveto go back into the past, naturally.

Why? Because these things are going to stretch and theywill stretch from thinking (circuitry), into effort, intoemotion, into looking with all those little gradients. Yousee, it goes down scale. It goes look - look belongs inthere - look, emotion, effort, think; look, emotion, effort,think; look, emotion, effort, think. That's the way itlooks on - as you graph it.

Well, all right. You pull out anybody's anchor points andit hurts. One thing they're afraid of is ridicule. So lossactually does terrible things to somebody, because you yankout the anchor points and what they do is to go throughthis think - thinkingness of thinking they have been pulledback out again. And this, of course, makes loss painful.

All right, this is very obvious to you, but you have here aproblem of attention. Nineteen fifty we were talking aboutattention units: too many attention units lost in the bank.Well, the person gets too many attention units pushed in onhim. He's given attention units; they've been pushed in.And as these are pushed in they come back to a heavy, heavycondensation, and when that condensation gets reallycondensed, they get fresh out of units.

Do they at any time ever get an attention unit reallytrapped anywhere in the bank? No, they don't. Not one. Butthey're afraid to have any out there.

Now, you could take a low-toned preclear and he willactually be able to emanate attention units. He can throwflitter around like mad; I mean, I don't even care if he'soccluded, you could still get him to throw out flitter. Youjust say, "All right, start throwing it out," and he'llthrow out flitter. You can throw it out for a long time. Ofcourse, that isn't the important flitter. He already knowsthat because every time he throws out this flitter...Flitter are these little gold sparks that comes off thetans. All right. You can call it flitter. In Hollywood they call that stuff gold powder that goes on hair wigs and sometimes they even use it on stationery and so forth - that's flitter. All right.

This flitter, as it emanates, restimulates old lookingness(because they've kept that old lookingness handy, becauseit's been pushed in on them), and they resisted andsomething resisted them. And the thing that resisted themthey weren't taking any responsibility for because theywere standing and looking at it as it came in. And theywere - wanted an effect from it! And by wanting an effectfrom it, they, of course, were able, then, to be an effectof it. They wanted the effect of long-range looking; theywanted to examine it and its aesthetics.

All right. As it jams up on them, and so on - because theybasically - the first postulate is they want the effect onit - it basically goes right on down Tone Scale. It isn'ttrue that all thought is caused by impact per se; it isthought - it is a fact that all aberrated thought is causedby an impact - primary impact. All right. An impact would go through that gradient scale.

Well, let's look at this for a moment and find outsomething from it. Let's find out, then, that subjectiverunning goes just so far because you're doing an introvert,you see? You're - introvert, introvert, introvert,introvert, on and on and on and on and on with very littleextroversion. And so after a while the body gets sort of -it gets - it gets pretty, pretty bad off. You keep throwingthings into restimulation and not throwing them out. Eventhough you're burning them down, you're operating in closeto the GE which is the level of pain or at least emotion,and certainly effort. But as far as the GE is concerned,you start throwing him into these various restimulations.

Now, Admiration Processing and explosions, each one, willhave this effect upon them. This is your subjectivetechnique which is also called the limited technique. Andthis material, then, which has turned up and which isbanished, one way or the other, has this secondary effect.If you're a Step I, you care to shift your wavelengtharound, you will be able to perceive ridges. These are veryinteresting. The GE is so dependent upon his own network ofridges, upon his own network of old communication lines, inorder to get stimulus-response and training patterns backinto action again, the thetan, in handling the GE, is sodependent upon these ridges that both the body and thethetan start to go into apathy when too many of them getdissolved.

How would you like to take a great big tractor and startburning down all of its control buttons? Just startshorting out its control buttons so that it had - thedriver then had to find another way to control the tractor.The tractor, of course, would for a while drive much lesseasily although its machinery was still all intact. Itscontrol buttons, its ridges, its stores of fuel and so on,all these things are being tampered with on close-upauditing. This doesn't say that it will hurt anybody over along period of time to chew up some of these ridges.

But after you've - if you could stand up above a preclear and watch Admiration Processing or explosions be run on him,you would see that it's chewing up ridges. It's going tomake a mess out of him sooner or later. This isn't going tohurt him any. That stuff will blow away. He could actuallyput it into other space - yesterday, something of the sort;just other space - and he would be rid of it. But thetrouble is, he is a machine which is running almostexclusively upon just this factor and no other factor: theridge. He depends on everything from this ridge.

Ridges are very amazing. Now, sometime you want to makethis experiment. You ask a preclear to be out somewhere infront of his body; he'd have to be a pretty good Step I;he'd have to be pretty well run in order for the fellow todo this. But - because people don't like to get in front oftheir bodies - they think they've blown through them and this is upsetting to them. They've gone all the way through.This scares them.

The psychotic, by the way, is nearly always out in front ofhis face looking back. A neurotic occasionally is too.Every once in a while you'll find a perfectly sane thetanout there too. This thetan is in front of the body. Thethetan is high Tone Scale. He isn't operating inside thebody, but he walks out in front of the body, and he keepshauling the body along, see, if the thetan is in a hurryand the body is pretty slow, and so on. The thetan will getover that and he'll eventually get back of it.

A thetan, by the way, really trying to control a bodywouldn't control it from the back, he'd control it from thefront. So - but, nevertheless, low on the Tone Scale they get blown out front and they don't know they're out front of the body and they're very puzzled about the whole thing.They're out front of the body looking forward through acircuit which goes back around like a couple of loops,enters the body's head and looks forward again through theeyes. Therefore, you have the picture of a man lookingthrough himself continually. This is the case in someoccluded cases, but not all of them.

The occluded case is trying to look through his own head,which is an occlusion. He's looking through the body's headon a circuit, which is then looking through his own head.And he gets his re-perceptions, and so on, simply bylooking out in front of himself, which goes on a big two -double curve loop, which goes back through the body's head,which goes back through the optical nerves. He's got tohave eyes! He knows this.

All right. This is not true and don't immediately assumethat your own case, if you happen to be an occluded case,naturally falls in this category; it doesn't. Although someoccluded cases become very, very funny after a good, solidprocess is run on them or something. They'd say, "My God!I'm looking at my own eyelids. I've been looking at my owneyelids for a long time." Or "Of course it's dark in here."Just that. "Of course it's dark in here. Nobody ever wiredit up with electric lights or anything." They're very funny.

Now, a preclear yesterday was telling us about globs ofenergy drifting by, and so on. A fellow gets in the middleof a whole bunch of impacts and part of this material getsdissolved, part of his ridges get dissolved, and then henever puts them into yesterday because he knows they'revaluable and he needs them. This is a postulate that's onthis ridge: "I've got to have it." And he doesn't let go ofthis energy. He just keeps it around, keeps it around,keeps it around. But all of this is computationalinformation that he keeps it around and why he keeps itaround and that he isn't responsible, but he isresponsible; that he wants to be helped, but he doesn'twant to be helped. That's all computational circuitry. Whatwe're interested in is the fact that he is in mechanicaltrouble; he's in a mechanical difficulty and nothing else.

And that mechanical difficulty is - stems from thecharacteristic, basically, of explosions and thecharacteristic of space. Space first and then, being space,these explosions start entering. Well, he gets this stuffadrift and he doesn't want to get away with it - rid of itand he doesn't want to throw it away. And he's had someexplosions in his own life and after that his visio wasn'tso good or something like that.

But remember, this fellow is still in pretty good shape; hecan see with his eyes; he can drift around. And having beenscared once, he doesn't want to be scared twice - anothercomputational datum. What he's really afraid of is gettingthose anchor points stretched out again, oh brother. Ohbrother, he doesn't want those anchor points stretched outagain. Every time you run into blackness you've gotpain - every time. And when you start to dissolve thatblackness, you start to bring that pain into view. And thisbecomes an interesting thing. You start to dissolveblackness, you'll run into pain.

When you get an old (quote) "Fifth Invader body" - a FifthInvader body composed of nothing but blackness, and thisblackness is extremely difficult to handle. Why? It wasused covertly. You can take a black piece of energy andblow it up in a black vacuum in such a way as to destroysomebody else's mock-up and then you can say, "Me? I didn'tdo it. What happened?" Cute, huh? It's a dramatization ofthe explosion.

You get that? It's a dramatization of the end of theexplosion. You blow somebody up with black energy in ablack explosion and then they don't know quite whathappened. See that?

Male voice: Oh yeah!

Okay. What do you run on an occluded case?

Female voice: Black explosions, perhaps.

Ah.

Female voice: Explosions.

How long do you run it?

Female voice: Whew! Poom!

How long do you run it?

Male voice: Two years.

Male voice: Ten or twenty.

Why - why do you - why do you want to compare time with it? You run it till he's Clear. Isn't that simple? Who cares howlong it takes? The fact of the matter is it doesn't takevery long.

Now he, by the way, is apt to become a little bitinterested in his daily work or interested in goingsomeplace and being something else for a while. He gets alittle bit disinterested in keeping his appointments. Ifyou have to run this more than two or three sessions, hegets downright worried about this because this stuff hurts.If he's a really heavy, rough job of an occluded case, it'spainful.

Because of course you run at the same time the last momentsof all explosions. You start running black explosions andyou'll start running the last moments of white explosions.And they really hurt! And so do the black explosions; theyreally hurt, too.

Now, you can tell these people, you just say, "You got ablack field?" or "Is there any - do you have any blackness or any trouble with blackness?" "You ever been afraid of thedark?" or a few dozen other questions like that. If theystart telling you "Yes," well, you just start running someblack explosions on them, but for God's sakes vary it withSix Steps to Better Beingness. Now, this is a fastertechnique than you've been using. It's faster. Okay.

The occluded case will discover some interesting thingswhen he starts running black explosions. Where do you putthem? Oh, you just throw them out there the way you do anyexplosions. Close? Well, if you want to. Do they explodefor any reason? No. Do you run them in brackets? Yes, yourun them in brackets. You get this explosion - blackexplosion - in brackets.

Now, it's quite variable. You'll find out from varioustimes that he's got different black things explodingbecause there's a large characteristic - there's a largeclass of this characteristic energy.

So let's - let's look at the large class. What is it? Firstwe start out with screens. A protective screen is quiteordinarily black. It's something you can hide behind. Thefellow - you can make black energy; anybody can make blackenergy. You just say it's black energy and there it is.

All right, so this fellow is standing there innocently witha protective screen and he doesn't want to be shot up atthe particular moment. Some other thetan thinks this is awonderful joke and so he blows up the guy's screen. He justputs some power and force into the middle of the screen andit goes kapam! And there is a kind of black explosion.

There's various other ways that black explosions are made,but you want to watch your preclear. You'll get the mostreal reality there is by taking a small black piece ofsomething or other and putting it out there - making ablack piece and making it explode. See? I mean, you put theblackness there and then let it explode rather than justhave black explosions all over the place. This runs outvarious things. Runs out screens and so forth. You could dothat in brackets, and you can do various things with it. Oryou just run black explosions and let him make them any wayhe wants to.

Now, you've got to do some of that running of "he justmakes black explosions the way he can make blackexplosions." And you don't have to worry about what you do,at least - you'll find these black explosions quite oftenwith an occluded case only half explode. So you want tooccasionally run no black explosions. "Now get a no blackexplosion out there." Of course, his immediate suppressionturns on and the explosion goes poom! You see how that is?His suppression of the explosion when it happened to himwas sufficiently great that he could start stopping theseexplosions. But do you really have to worry about that? No,you don't, because if you just ran enough explosions, why,that suppression would go too.

Now, you'll get some beautiful somatics doing this and yourpreclear will get very, very - I mean, you get out of thepreclear some beautiful somatics. You'll get some veryinteresting manifestations of physiological structure whichyour preclear was quite sure were part of the anatomy ofthe GE. He'll have big sheets of stuff parked in variousparts of his body. This stuff starts to curl up and go thisway and go that way. And the stickiness which he's beenhaunted with for some time starts to get quite soft. Andthen you'll think you've got the preclear all beautifully - because you've got the field clean for a change, and then you turn around, having cleaned the field beautifully, and he hauls in a lot more black space which you now have to blow up again.

Now that you've started going on this, and he's found outthere is a method by which it duplicates, he's going to bepretty sure that he doesn't have any more of this stuff inthe bank. That's the only thing which makes it occasionallya lengthy project. Well, let's not worry too much about howmuch black there is in the bank; let's worry more aboutthis: Let's get him by gradient scales to get sufficientreality on black explosions that he becomes confident ofhis ability to handle a black explosion. When he gets acertainty that he's handling a black explosion well, hethen and only then is willing to stop pulling in pieces ofblack space to blow up. He stops running on the computationof "I've got to get it all," and so on.

Now, the number of computations that come out of blackexplosions, and so on, are just countless. There's morereasons than you can possibly imagine. You'll find that hesays, "Well, I got this body in an old Fac One which is twohundred thousand years ago," and he wants to tell you aboutthis. The dickens with it. The dickens where he got thatparticular body and so forth. It might do him some good,but a couple of more black explosions deintensify anyfurther interest in it.

See, the covertness and the beautiful utility of the blackexplosion, and its intense superiority over a whiteexplosion which discloses your whereabouts, makes thisblackness to be exploded on the one hand quite valuable andon the other hand quite dangerous. So he both is holdingon - and he's holding on to this thing because it's valuable,and on the other side of it he can't let go of it becauseit's dangerous. And so he gets caught between the devil andthe deep blue.

You'll find any preclear has got this. Now, so let'sremember - let's remember when processing black explosionsthat the preclear is going to run them until he gets a goodcertainty on "Can he do it?" If he can have a blackexplosion at any time and it's a good black explosion, andboy, it really, really knocked things around, he thinksthis is real good. Now, chunks of his own occlusion for thefirst time will start crumpling up on him.

Now, you could run white explosions long enough - you readPAB 12. PAB 12 is explosion processing. And in PAB 12 itsays run them backwards. See, that's a big joke. If you runan explosion backwards, it goes from nothingness to ablack somethingness to a white somethingness tonothingness. That would be a backwards explosion. Well,some of these explosions would have blackness in them,start with whiteness, but this isn't true of all of them.There's just such a thing as nothing but a black explosion.

There was a shell in the Civil War which when fired from afield gun, blew up in the air and made a black puff ofsmoke. You find the Civil War in restimulation on mostFifth Invader cases. The Civil War is standing there asanother lock on the case. Boy, those are valuableexplosions. See, that's just wonderful. You could get outthere and blow something up and the cops could never getnear you - the engram cops.

Male voice: Ack-ack fire in World War I German ack-ack fire.

German ack-ack fire. Again, black mushrooms.

Male voice: Mm-hm.

I imagine if you found a pilot that had been mixed up inthat, if he had a Fifth Invader background, boy, is thisguy thick. He's really got a pile of them.

Well, all right, so we see that war and violence leaves itsmark upon man. But it was not without fun early in thetrack - not without fun. Okay.

Now, remember this is another subjective technique. It's areal good one. But it is another subjective technique,therefore should be varied with Six Steps to BetterBeingness. But please don't pull this one; please don't dothis: Don't run black explosions on a case on and on andon, getting better and better certainty on them, and moreand more data and he's happier and happier about things,and go on and on and on, session after session aftersession running black explosions and Six Steps to BetterBeingness and black explosions and Six Steps to BetterBeingness, without sometime or another asking him to bethree feet or three miles back of his head or be someplacein the universe where he'd like to be. Because after arelatively - after a relatively small amount of blackexplosions, a man may be able to exteriorize with greatease. And you'll find out that this blackness will turn upon Step I's.

A Step I starts ramming around and making himself feltthrough the universe, and then all of a sudden he decidesto be a little bit prankish or something, and it suddenlyrestimulates his index of black explosions. And he'll(quote) "Pull in a big piece of the black universe," andhere we go. Now, you can get rid of it by running whiteexplosions, too. But not anywhere near as fast as thatmuch, much more valuable thing called a black explosion.

Now, the thetan that went in for black explosions, I callto your attention strongly, was already at a level of noresponsibility although he was probably in a level of highhumor. Not only would he take no responsibility for theform of having randomity and blowing things up, but hewouldn't take responsibility for having blown something up.

All of a sudden a fellow had a few screens sitting up therein front of some mock-ups. All of a sudden they went boom!boom! And then over his head another black explosionoccurred. This very sympathetic thetan says, "Oh, I'msorry. What happened to you?" The fellow says, "You didthat to me!" "No, I didn't do that. Did what? It's probablybecause you put up those screens in such a way thatthey - the construction was imperfect or something like thatand the screen itself blew up. Yes, if you'd built thembetter they wouldn't have blown up, of course."

Or a fellow sitting up in space minding his own businessand all of a sudden there's boom! and he flies all over theplace and he hasn't any idea exactly what happened to himbecause he didn't see a thing.

Furthermore, the point that throws out a black explosion isnot disclosed. If there was no flash to gunfire, generalswould be much happier. You locate machine gun nests andfield guns and ships at sea simply by the explosion oftheir guns. They go "flack, flack, flicker, flicker, flick,flick, flick." All of a sudden somebody drops a barrage onthem.

So the thetan had to be in a situation already where hewouldn't claim his own explosions. So this gives us theinteresting fact that if you find an occluded case and tryto run Responsibility on the occluded case, the occludedcase will not run Responsibility. Responsibility - he won'tbe cause. So therefore, we can say many things aboutblackness. It is symptomic [symptomatic] of noresponsibility. It is symptomic [symptomatic] of not beingcause. It is a desire to be effect. It is a lot of things,because all of this material was in the thetan early on thetrack.

And this particular crew of thetans with which we'redealing right now call themselves "Fifth Invaders," butthat's kind of a silly one. There was no real Fifth InvaderForce, but there was a Fourth Invader Force. But the FifthInvader Force came along and it kind of got pulled into thewhole deal.

There isn't any reason again, though, to worry abouthistory, because what I'm talking to you about when I sayFifth Invader and Fourth Invader and so forth, I'm talkingabout para-Scientology. All we're interested in is gettingsomebody to get a certain kind of black explosion.

Remember, it's a subjective technique. It should beinterspersed with other techniques. And remember thatyou'll run into white explosions. And remember that you runblack explosions in brackets and you'd better run a veryfull bracket. That is, one doing it to himself; somebodyelse doing it to themselves and other people doing it toother peoples and then another person doing it to thepreclear and the preclear doing it to another person.

And you start running this on a case and all sorts of stuffthrows up and gets into view and all that sort of thing.It's terribly effective. Really grim! So we find out thatexplosions themselves are effective.

Now, here is a peculiar explosion, and it seems to be thegenus of the occluded case. The genus of the occluded casehas been traced occasionally, on an - occasional cases, tosomething very remarkable to something else that's veryremarkable.

The guy is tearing like mad through space - more space opera,see - tearing like mad through space and he collides withsomething. And this fellow gets restimulated by drivingfast at night. And he's got all that black space in frontof him. Well, this isn't a case with a black explosion. Youjust start running this out, just the idea of going throughspace. Some of these cases you just throw them onto theE-Meter and you ask them something or other about wherethey are, and the next thing you know full recall turns onon the last between-lives. And the next thing you know thefellow has complete color, visio, sonic in full recall.We've had - we've had a very few cases who did this. Veryfascinating, it happens so quick.

Well, all right. When you run thinkingness, then, you'rerunning the extreme level of condensation - painfulthinkingness. When you're running emotion - painful emotion - you're running another - another close-in level. So let's just move out to good, big violence. And let's move first into the most covert, good, big violence that we can move on an occluded case. And let's run black explosions because that's a covert violence at some distance.

Male voice: There's no regulation against running this onunoccluded cases, is there?

You're going to find that most cases run into an occlusion.

Male voice: Ah.

We've been having a good time using this word "occluded"case, because occluded cases get so proud. But you get aStep I running around someplace, sooner or later he's goingto run into a black theta trap whether you like it or not.He's going to run into some black energy someplace in spaceor he's going to find somewhere on the track that he had abig use for it. You get him into sorting through facsimiles.

It's very interesting. You take a - take a Step I, and youstart asking him for facsimiles. (We're not yet ready totalk very much about Step I.) You start asking him forfacsimiles and he'll have whole stacks of facsimiles, andhe'll say, "That's a funny thing. Here's a stack and it'sall stuck together with blackness. I hadn't ever noticedthat before." Well, he's got a black explosion in therehe's saving. And it's covert and it makes him feel covert.

Now, let's go into the last thing I think that you reallyought to know about this is, condemn it, a black explosioncase becomes much more covert when you start running blackexplosions. He can think of more things to do and morereasons why he's not responsible, because you'rerestimulating these - all these moments of irresponsibilityon the track. And he could tell you more fairy tales aboutwhat he is doing. You just start running black explosionsand it generates all this because this is in the bank. Allthis covertness is in the bank.

So you start running a black explosion on an E-Meter andyou'll be a happier auditor. When the explosion goes off;the needle will jump. You can always see an emotion on theneedle.

Now, in running explosions, if you want to get a much, muchhappier reading on the E-Meter that gives you lots lessaction on the E-Meter - you want just the explosion on theE-Meter - you'll set the sensitivity knob down. On the oldAR-50, I mean old-the old HR-53, I think I used to run thatat 5. Yes, I used to run the sensitivity needle at 5 and alittle bit below 5 for explosions. And then the needlewould just twitch a little bit and you could just sit therehappily watching the needle twitch. And all othermanifestations just go through the machine; they'reunrecorded.

There are a lot of things that happen with regard to blackexplosions, a lot of things that happen to the guy's bankand internally and so forth. But watch out that thisdoesn't happen to you: that a demon comes up and you getinterested in the demon rather than in continuing the case.As I said, many interesting things show up. This is theblack witch doctor from Haiti who is running the preclear;he's black. He's got a black body and there's this blackdemon that has always been hanging on the preclear's ears,and then there's this black demon that has been sitting onthe preclear's head. All of these things are talking demonsand all of that. Well, those are things for which the preclear can't be responsible so, of course, there are ridges of black energy which can't talk - pardon me, which can't - about which the preclear can't do anything and really can't talk most of the time because these things assume considerable power. All right.

The preclear, then, will very often start telling you abouta demon who has just shown up. Fortunately, the techniqueis sufficiently fast that two explosions later the thing isgone.

Well, that's about all there is to say about this. There'sa lot more data you'll learn as auditors. But I give youthose words of caution, particularly the old - that old demondeal.

Fac One bodies quite often are black. They keep hammeringand pounding the guy with black energy; he's trying todisappear. The way they did this with a Fac One body was tohang up a black curtain and pound with the Fac One machinethrough the curtain at the preclear. And they poundedthrough and it gave him the impression he was now coveredwith blackness, and so he restimulated one of his old blackenergy levels, and so forth, and so he could operate as ademon. The preclear who is black is subzero on the ToneScale. Uniformly they get worried about ownership and so on.

This material is restimulated by education. Everybody hasto suppress white which immediately makes education covert.The black ink comes up out of the page. So therefore,anything that explodes out of that page is no responsibility.

And people who write on scientific subjects are running thedamnedest no responsibility you ever heard of becausethey're occluded cases writing in black and white.

These boys get terrific. 'According to the records whichwere examined by some other firm, and on the authority ofthe scientist I have never met, my tentative conclusion onthe matter, although we have not yet added up the finalfigures, tend to indicate that a result is possible undercertain cases at least with some investigators."

Of course, the chemical - biochemical houses don't do thatthese days. The biochemical houses are so pressed to keepup the reputation of the medical profession. The medicalprofession is running a no responsibility. It's turned overall its responsibility, you might say, to the drug companies.

The drug companies are having to keep up so hard to keepthe public interested in medicine. The biochemists are thenturning out material and they're testing it on one-seriesof one case, series of two cases, series of three cases,and as long as they write it up with that level of caution,they lend it total conviction.

The people who read this material and believe it are ableto assume a conviction only when nobody will assume aresponsibility. See what happens?

Now, this goes into a lot of reason. He doesn't dare letout white energy was the first thing that happened to him.He got hurt by letting out white energy. He found out thatthe black energy could be exploded too, and he's off to theraces. Now he's - gets stuck in that level.

The biochemist, as I say, writing on the white page, isjumping around and raising the devil. That's because hehasn't yet had his anchor points knocked in like themedical profession has.

These cases of one and cases of three and so forth,fortunately, are not what we're up against here. We'retalking about cases of God knows how many.

I am beginning to believe that Scientology and Dianeticsare the only sciences that have ever been researched; theonly sciences in which there have been actual test casesset up and where observation has been made of results andwhere some attention has been paid to what was happening. Ibelieve this. It's just getting more and more apparent tome. Because, you see, I'm basically very literal minded.And when I read something, it in the past hasn't been amatter of no significance or what is the significance, soon. When I read something, why, I think that's true. And Iread that they used to do lots of cases, you see, and theyused to test and prove things a lot of times. Everybodysays they do, so I thought, "Gee, that's a good idea. Let'sdo that. Let's just send this out and let a lot of peopleuse it and then find out what happens. And stay incorrespondence with them and get a lot of test cases. Andevery time something comes out, why, we will announce thething with certainty and get it around. But if it's - itdoesn't bear that much freight when it gets out there tothe fifth, sixth, eighth hand, the hell with it! We'll justfind something else and throw it out there again and we'llget there." We have.

There's nothing much to this. But everybody has objected tomy level of certainty on a technique. Unfortunately, Ican't even mock up how to be the other way. I've had a badtime trying to. I've tried to write that way. I tried towrite for a medical paper one time and I just couldn't makethe grade. It was impossible! I didn't know exactly how togo about being - being so, you know, undecided. It was a veryinteresting experience for me.

So you say, "Uh-well-uh-there-uh..." I wouldn't even knowhow to begin it now, even to give you a mock-up of it. It'ssomething on the order of; "Well there - the people have beensaying for a long time there is some possibility - you canqualify it, of course, by the fact that there have been agreat many researchers on it, so we can place some relianceupon their data. They've been saying for a long time thatsomething possibly could be altered or changed about themental attitude or outlook of somebody."

Male voice: Thinking about saying this.

And thinking about this. Yeah.

I don't know how to write like that. I sit down to atypewriter and I say, "Bam! Bam! Bam!" It gets out thereto the fifth hand and it doesn't bam. Okay, there's alwayslots of bams left.

This is, though, much closer to taking full responsibilityfor something than anything else I know. If it doesn'twork, we can remedy it. If it worked in my hands and itworked in Joe's hands and Bill's hands, and we worked about15 preclears on this level, and it all seemed to work outjust fine, everybody seemed to feel a lot better, allright, let's let her go. If it didn't go, well, allright - tough.

And you'll find out that the people that get most upsetabout this is the person who's sitting in the middle of abig black explosion. And he really gets upset. So this mademe very curious and I started to look around at several ofmy scientific friends.

Oh brother, this is brutal! The first moment any one ofthese fellows gets scared of white energy, he immediatelystarts using himself - in himself and around himself; as faras a thetan is concerned, black energy. And then this hasno responsibility on the end of it consistently andbrother, he's done. He's just like matched up there on aquestion and answer with the MEST universe.

Science is "What is the answer to MEST? What is the answerto MEST?" And there's nothing more pliable norpush-aroundable - more pusharoundabie than MEST is. And so that's the way science goes. Science will follow thedownward curve of America - go down and - like clerking andthen it will go down to the level of kind of inferior like- like - oh, I don't know -street cleaning; and it'll godown below that and fellows will be very, very - they'realready getting very covert; and then it'll go down to thelevel to where there won't be any.

Do you know that it's an astonishing thing that this curvehas already been followed in some countries of the world.America is probably the last country of the world which isbeating the drum today for science. It sounds blasphemouswhat I say about science, but it just sounds routine inEngland. They say, "Yes, yes. What's so surprising aboutthis? What's so surprising about the fact that science isnot the answer to our civilization? We know that. We can'tfigure out why you're calling this Scientology, though,because it gets it into disrepute with the people. Theyknow science has failed them."

Well, science goes into the irresponsibility and getsitself all messed up with its own mock-ups and there it is.

So, one more fact: When you get mixed up with a scientist,you are mixed up immediately with an occluded case. Becausehis tone level to be a scientist today, for him to getrepute, draw Nobel prizes and things like that, isuncertainty and blackness and "What is the significance of it?"

What you would do for American science today if you wentout and got a half a dozen of the top cookies in thisbusiness, if you swamped them up - they really areeffective and they would have to take responsibility forwhat they were doing. You swamp them up, they'd starttaking responsibility halfway up the line for science andholy cats! Because all this technology has been worked outand nobody is using it.

The US government had to come along and take the atom bomband subsidize it before anybody would build one. That'sincredible because the amount of commercial value to anatomic bomb is so great - the capitalization of 3 billiondollars to put together a pile; that is nothing. I know ofmany projects that have had more capitalization than thatfrom private industry. And they had to go to the onlyorganization in the country that notoriously wastedeverything and that was the government. Because nobodycould take the responsibility of his own discoveries in thefield of atomic energy.

Actually, there is atomic energy. Atomic energy today canbe made so simply, so fascinatingly simply. Atomic bombscan be made so easily that you would actually believesomebody had to get in and made - have made several beforethey found this out. That isn't the case. Some scientistcould have chewed away and figured this out. He couldhave - he could have made atomic bombs. The mad Russianscientist is an impossibility. Nobody should be afraid ofthis level of blackness.

Now, what happens if you run out the blackness on a caseexclusively? You get for the first time something like fullresponsibility. And what's full responsibility? Ha! Let'ssay there's a war in progress and somebody starts takingfull responsibility for the war. Downscale he takes a blamefor the war having begun, and upscale he simply takes fullresponsibility for both sides. It doesn't mean that he doesa thing. Full responsibility is not coincident withaction. And may I point out old AP&A and its little essayin there on full responsibility.

So you asked the question many times, "Well, why does thisfellow, when he becomes an Operating Thetan, and so forth,just why doesn't this fellow go over and straighten outthis or that situation?" Well, this or that situation - thatisn't the way you straighten out things in this universe.You start operating from a side of doing everything sweetlyand everything pleasantly and so forth; that isn't the waythings get worked out in the universe. Not necessarilysweet and pleasant at all. You have to throw a lot ofpeople to the lions and you have to do all kinds of weirdand horrible things. And gee, to get something done - to wantto have something done about an evolving culture, in thefirst place, denotes an impatience with the culture.

So, you get an Operating Thetan going and he gets up theline, and you say, "Well, why doesn't he go out and..."Like the - I had to, by the way, answer the phone about sixtimes, auditors and so forth calling me in London about JoeStalin. That was very interesting to me. They actuallythought I'd have a vested interest in doing something aboutStalin. That got me to thinking, though, and I called up acouple of guys I knew were Operating Thetans, and this isthe first time I really sat down and thought this over verythoroughly and completely.

These guys didn't have any interest in Stalin. And Isuddenly realized I hadn't had any interest in Stalin forabout four or five months. So he was dead; he was dead.Well, that's interesting. What'd he die of? It's kind ofwatching a little play going on, on the stage. It wasn't amatter of life and death to any of these Operating Thetans;it was a matter of life and death to people who couldn'toperate. Now, do you see why?

So we get the matter of full responsibility. And then wetake a high level of full responsibility such as that of anOperating Thetan, and you want him to go down and burn downthe local police department in order to help out a friendof yours and so forth? Well, it isn't that he won't do it,he just can't see the point. He's just not able to digestexactly how this comes about. You try to then convince himby the fact that there is a reason for it to be done. AnOperating Thetan doesn't need reasons. Only the body hasreasons.

If you want to make somebody well sometime, make him dosomething without any reason for it, and he'll actuallysnap up the Tone Scale a little bit. It's the same categoryas you make somebody tell you a lie - another littletechnique. Make a guy do something without any reason. Makehim go over to the window - one auditor did this and slammedthe case to glory over in England. The guy, just every timehe'd say do this or do that, oh, the fellow said, "Why do Ihave to do that?" And the auditor would explain it to himand if the reason was adequate, the fellow would then putthe mock-up out there or something like that.

The auditor finally said to him rather brilliantly, hesaid, "Well, walk over to the window and look out." And thefellow said, "Why?" He said, "Do it without any reason atall. Just walk over to the window and look out." This manwas thunderstruck! The idea of making a motion... But hedidn't have any idea it was even therapeutic. There wasn'teven a therapeutic reason for doing this. And he walkedover to the window and looked out and pam! broke a verysevere neurosis.

He suddenly realized that he'd done something without areason. He suddenly realized the upper truth: There is noreason for action except action. The answer to action is action.

So don't expect your Operating Thetan to go out and solveall the problems in the universe. He blows up theta trapsnot because - not because he thinks that thetans shouldn't be trapped; he blows them up because they explode so well!

Now, this sounds sort of idle, doesn't it? It certainly issort of a Peter Pan way of looking at things. But it's muchcloser to a very beautiful and comfortable way of life thananything else. It's hard for people to understand why itwould be that a person becomes an Operating Thetan. It'shard for people to understand why spirits wouldn'timmediately come down and start cleaning up MEST orcleaning up Earth culture and so forth, unless it wassimply to get some randomity. They just don't do it, that'sall.

They have to have a reason. Well, the reason they'd have tohave, really, would be of magnificent magnitude. There'dhave to be a terrific reason in back of it that covered afull responsibility of practically one end of the MESTuniverse to the other. To really get down and buckle downand think it was serious, you'd have to get above thelevels of the guy's ability to look and reach. See? A manwho is stopping the fighting of a war isn't looking at bothsides; he's just looking at one side of the picture.

So anyway, this doesn't alter the fact that war is going tochew up this civilization and it isn't going to be here oneof these days just because of that fact. Well, if you stillwant the civilization, you better slow the war down.

[end of lecture.]

1st ACC - 09

Tape number 660 onthe Flag Master List.

EXTERIORIZATION, DIFFICULT CASES

A lecture given on 12 October 1953

[Clearsound.]

Well, this is October the 12th, first lecture of the day.

And this morning we're going to take up a very, veryimportant factor which is the reason why - that beautifulreason why - that is actually the reason why people havedifficulty in exteriorizing.

We can go into many thinking reasons but in order tounderstand this we have to go into a mechanical reason. Itis actually purely a mechanical problem. I've said thatseveral times before but it's very true. It's an - entirelya mechanical problem.

The reason people find it difficult to exteriorize restsentirely and completely upon the double-terminal or thematched-terminal, you might say, effect of the MESTuniverse. The MEST universe goes in fours and twos; mostlyyou'll see it operating on its double-pole principle.

Best example of it is an electric motor where you have apositive terminal and a negative terminal. Actually, thenegative terminal is positive at the time it's negative andthe positive terminal is negative at the time it'spositive. Actually, a double terminal must exist there;there's four involved. That creates an electric current.

And we have entirely this proposition which you may or maynot know about - you may have forgotten because it's beengone over very rapidly many times - and that is the factthat we have, by concatenation, the obvious fact that thetaholds these two or four poles apart and that is the abilityof theta; and that's all the ability theta has. You canmake space and in the space you can make forms, but you canmake the forms because you've agreed you've made the forms.

And holding two terminals apart and making space are thesame breed of cat. Taking two anchor points and puttingthem up is putting up two terminals. If an individualcannot hold space apart, if he is short on space - space isthe key to all of this - if he is short on space - not short on energy as we have been saying, although people understandit better because energy's lower on the scale - if they'reshort on space, they can't hold those two, four or eightanchor points apart. And those anchor points collapse andthere you have a scarcity of space.

Now, when the space scarcity becomes apparent, we see itsmanifestation in the human being in finding everything tooclose to him or irrecoverably too far away. He can'tcontrol the amount of space he occupies. All you are tryingto do, I repeat, all you are trying to do, all you aretrying to do to a preclear, everything you are trying to doto the human mind, all you are trying to do to the humanmind - always gauge it with this - is simply rehabilitate the preclear's ability to create and maintain and vary andvanish space. That's all you're trying to do with it.You're not trying to do anything else. This is on thehighest echelon of processing.

You find all things - all things will boil down to this:Actually and technically there is really no such thing asan anchor point; there is really no such entity. An anchorpoint would be a collection of smaller spaces. A complexanchor point would actually just be a smaller space whichis put out to demark a larger space. Let's say we havethree or four or eight points something on the order likethat - and they circumscribed a certain space. And we've putthose points together and we've got a space. Now, that'svery interesting. You put a lot of nothing around nothingto make and collapse nothing but that's about what itamounts to.

This, by the way, leads one very readily to accept suchthings as handed out by Christianity and particularly byChristian Science. You look in the roster of an insaneasylum and you'll find out that the majority of the peoplein the insane asylum who have announced their religious - not the majority of the people, but the majority of those who have announced a religious conviction - go into themajority of Christian Science. And Christian Science is themost and Catholicism is the least, either because all theCatholics are indoctrinated to be something else orsomething of the sort.

But what distinguishes this? The Christian Science says,"All is illusion," and then tells somebody to think goodthoughts and then gives all the space to God. Ow! Oh boy!Now you couple those three things together and you have thevery center pin, the very center of insanity. All the spaceof an insane preclear belongs to somebody else.

When people are arguing, they are simply trying to takeeach other's space. When people are talking loudly at youand shouting at you, they are simply trying to make youunderstand that you have less space. The only punishablefact is creating more space or taking somebody else'sspace, but basically that's - the second one is secondary.The basic crime is making space which makes the basiccrime, communication.

Communication is in essence the ability to join, or make aconfluence with, other spaces. And you get all these spaceshooked together and you have agreement. That's "We'veagreed on this space. We've agreed that this much is myspace and that much is your space. Now, you'll find that assoon as one engages in a contest with a piece of space, hethen immediately is in contest with energy for the goodreason that he has postulated there's a couple of anchorpoints up there and somebody else has postulated there'ssome anchor points, too, so they're repostulating therepositioning of anchor points. So as to what? To make morespace or make less space.

People who have really given up and who have gone down ToneScale and so forth are owning up very broadly to everyoneat every hand that they have no space. Propitiation, verylow on the scale, is giving people space. However, thissame thing is very high on the scale.

It's true that space can be co-used. Several people can usethe same space. But it's equally true that low on thescale, somebody is giving up all of his space and tellingeverybody else to use his space. You see the idea?

So that you get you, as an auditor, could occupy twopositions on the Tone Scale. One with no success which is,"I have given you all my space, dear preclear, and you arenow operating solely in that space." And the upper-scaleposition would be, "You can have the use of space or youcan have your own space." But it'd never - that's an auditoroperating at that level isn't giving up his own space. Ifhe's really a good auditor, he permits people into it.

It's a rough deal when he's a border - above and below - tosuddenly admit people into his space. It can really knockhim to pieces because if he starts admitting people intohis space who themselves have some sort of a fixed idea about space - in other words, their space is fixed - we have avery difficult situation there. This other person sees thathere is some space and they will do all sorts of things.They'll try to occupy all the space exclusively which isplaying the only one, and so forth. They do all sorts ofthings. Now - and they try to - they'll try to grab more space than is there.

The vampire feeling that one gets sometimes when he talksto certain people, the vampire position, the vampirethought, this whole idea about vampires, about life energyand so forth, stems from the sensation people get when theyhave people in front of them who are taking space away fromthem.

Now, people who come right up to you and stand about aneighteenth of an inch from your nose and then do not moveaway under any of the practices of courtesy, or any otherpractice, and really have nothing to communicate to you atall: These people madden others because they are occupyinga space. And they're occupying too close a space and it'snot their space and really, what those people are doing istrying to pull in space.

And a long enough association with such a person - we call it collapsed terminals - and a long enough association with such a person will actually collapse the space of anotherperson. Their phrases, postulates - there's no point righthere in going into how language complements this loss ofspace and making of space and so forth; there's no point ingoing into it. But as you process a preclear, languageconfirming this keeps flying out of the bank. "I've got toget off by myself to think." Well, that confirms at oncethat a person's space has been so pushed in on him thathe's gone into a lot of thinkinguess and that means that hecan't even think without being off by himself, so he hasn'teven got space to think in, well, boy, that's darn littlespace.

The business executive who wants to go away to think it allover and so forth is a fellow, believe me, who is on theverge of failure. The artist who has to pace up and downand strike terrific postures, and so forth, about thebeautiful sadness of being unable to create in all this hubbub.

An artist who is really (quote) "on the ball" andproducing, a writer who is really flying, so forth, createsbest when his space is just jammed full - when there's allsorts of things.

One of the fastest writers in America, twenty years ago,used to write - when he was early in his career - he wrote with about four kids yelling at the tops of their lungs andrushing in and out of the room at a terrific rate of motionand busting toys over each other's heads, on a very, verynoisy typewriter. And he had a wife who had been raised,evidently, on a farm somewhere and the nearest farm to hermust have been about a quarter of a mile away across aravine. You'll find in mountainous countries people alwaystalk that way, too, by the way. They're trying to reachmore space.

Well, anyway, these kids grew up and it left the old man ina perilous position. He was still creating like mad, so hegot himself a great big speaker record player and he usedto put on symphonies on this - the maddest symphonies hecould find, you see. And at the same time play the localradio at the same noise level. And this gave him enoughcommotion and jam and jar as far as he was concerned tohave a pleasant, comfortable atmosphere.

Now, this was a tremendous, tremendous fellow, by the way;he's turned out more books under more names than you everheard of. I think he's dead. Yes, he died I think last yearor a couple of years ago. But - I think he was at the ripeold age of about ninety.

Here, then, was somebody whose space never really sufferedat all in spite of what he was doing. But where somebodyhas been upset about space, like a kid raised on "BoydAvenue" - where the "boyds sit on the coyb and choyp," or is that "Thoyty-thoyd Street" in New York - very often has a rough time of it. He's a success in life as long as he'sbeen able to knock out all the other kids in the block. Hebecomes a successful gangster or something of the sort. Orhe's a failure in life if he was the one that always gotlicked because the limitations on space are so tremendousas far as he is concerned. And thus you get this only onecharacteristic in the big cities. People do not share thespace of a big city. Each one occupies this tiny, littlecube of space which is about, oh, I don't know, a couple of millimeters on a side. I think if you exteriorized themfrom New York, you'd find that to be the case. Even thelittle kids would be tiny as thetans. Well now, this iswhat regulates it.

Now, when people are arguing back and forth, they areshoving in and pulling out each other's space. And whenthey are arguing about possessions they are yanking backand grabbing and pushing in, actually, anchor points whichmake space. And when a person's anchor points are toothoroughly pushed in too many times and so on, he has atendency to lock up. And he will get as much space as hecan reach with his hands. And you ask a lot of occludedcases how far their space extends and it will not occur tothem that it's exactly the same distance as they can reachwith their hands.

Now, a case which is having even greater space difficultiescan only reach as far as the interior of their skull andthey are actually looking at the interior of their skull.It's all plastered with energy and it's soggy, and soforth, so they have an idea that they're in a shell of somesort.

Now, because their space conception is upset they considerthis without a relative comparison. The inside of theirskull they fit over their whole body. See? And they, insidetheir skull, feel the inside of the skull and thenconsider that this is bigger than the body and their bodyis in there. Because they are in there and that's all thebody they have, you see, and it's all surrounded by blackness but they are their body. So you get a double-sized viewpoint and this is a terribly interesting thing. You'll get a lot of preclears, you'll suddenly swing into view a skull five or six yards in diameter or a man's head will suddenly poke in through a window - huge thing! And their concept of a skull, as a thetan, is just enormous. Well, their size relationships are going out. They're going out badly.

And trying to pick up other people's space is a good wayof - a good way of characterizing damaging aberrees - peoplewho are quite damaging in the society. What they're doingis trying to go around and grab other people's space.

Now, how do they do this? It just works out that they justkeep grabbing the space; they're collapsing all of the tinylittle anchor points and the smaller space quotients andthey cause tiny implosions. So we had the black explosionthe end of last week, now consider the black implosion; ithas no more light in it. Now, you get into the middle of aridge, you get into the middle of a black ridge and youcould make it explode by pulling a little more space out ofit. You just give it a yank and take some more space out ofit and condense it further and the chances are it'll blow up.

Well, all right. The postulate that is riding all blackareas really is "must not admire," as the lightestpostulate, and the heavier postulate "mustn't blow up; mustnot explode; must not implode." Why? These black things areused as screens.

How would you make a screen out of postulates? You wouldput it up and say, "Must not be penetrated" -just considerit for a moment - but particularly, "It mustn't explode."Because that's what people have put them up against. Thatwas the first effort to waste explosions. Well, all right,let's look at this screen, this big black screen andrealize that it's composed out of your own postulates. Ifyou're an occluded case or you have any of this blacknessshow up, it's composed of your own one time or anotherpostulates just to this effect: "It mustn't explode."

The funny part of it is it can implode. It can teeter andit can rock and it can do other things. But unless you justget so that you're perfectly willing to let anythingexplode around about the place or implode or do anythingelse, those old postulates hang fire; because they aren'told postulates. There is no such thing as old theta energy.All the energy you'll ever contact is right in present time.

All right. Therefore these screens form a type of occludedcase and that says, "Must not explode." A remedy for thiscase, of course, is to get the case started with blackexplosions. Well, a black explosion at one level is awasted explosion; just a waste of explosions. Why? Becausea black explosion in black space - that's that kind of ablack explosion, see? A black explosion in black space isinvisible, therefore it can't be admired, so therefore it'sa complete waste.

All right, now let's look at this person then and realizethat, if he is occluded, and if he is inside his body, andif he is having trouble getting out, exteriorizing andhaving his perceptions, he is having trouble with space -he's having lots of trouble with space. In the first place he conceives himself unable to occupy other space than the space immediately within the body.

All right. We take this space, we realize we're dealingwith anchor points. We're dealing with anchor points, then,rather than units of energy. A great many things becomeexplained to us.

The double-terminal or matched-terminal characteristic of amotor - see, I'm not just changing my phrase there to becorrect, a motor is actually a double terminal. It's gotfour units. Each terminal is a plus and minus - each polethrough which the electricity travels.

Now, we look at that - a motor - and we find out that it hastwo poles and we get a discharge across those two poles forone reason only: There is a base on the motor. It's a castiron base or a concrete base or a wooden base or somethingof the sort. But those two poles are held apart. In otherwords, space is enforced at that point.

Now, these are held apart by what? They're held apart bymatter and that's held apart by - it's dependent on earth,you see. And the fact that you've got the earth, you see -well, look at that very practically and you merely trace itback to the fact that out in the whole condemned universeyou only have one thing doing one thing and that must beholding things apart, in other words, space.

So let's take those two poles and realize something isimposing a space upon them. They are a space apart. Theyare actually four points if you only consider it this way:There's a top and a bottom of each. There's still fourpoints there. What you're dealing with there istwo-dimensional space. So you've got this pole on one sideand the pole on the other side and they make a certainamount of space.

Well, you take the earth... They're held apart by thespaces which are in the molecules which are in the matterthat compose the base. And that mass of spaces is heldapart by the space between the sun and the changing spacebetween the sun and Earth.

And this solar system is held apart and distinct from othersolar systems solely by space. And this galaxy is helddistinct and apart from other galaxies by space. Something,as we go up through that level, is imposing space. And thatwe find is will. And actually, all divine will or willpoweris reducible to the same thing. So this is what we call theintroduction of arbitrary space.

Okay. What would happen if we didn't have the space betweenthe two poles of the electric motor? We didn't have anyspace there, you'd get no current - they'd just lie oneagainst the other - but you'd have something that waslumpier. And if you were to collapse all the space and allthe space collapsed, that would be a different thingentirely and we'd have nothing there if you collapsed allthe space. But we won't worry about that one way or theother. Let's just look at the fact that when you collapsethe space between the two poles, there is no interchange ofcurrent; in other words, no motion. Motion is thereforedependent upon the imposition of space.

Motion alone - depends alone upon space. Motion has to dependon space. Space can exist without motion, but motion can'texist without space.

All right. Where, then, do we pick up this occluded preclear - the entrance? Well, he is the two terminals of the motor fitted together. He knows his willpower is no longer very good. He can't impose his will. If he can't impose hiswill, he's not dangerous to his environment. If he's notdangerous to his environment, he can't impose his will. Andwe're just talking the same - we're just comparing thesame - similar phrases. It all adds up to the same subjectand that is the fact that he can't interpose space betweenhimself and his body.

Why can't he? Well, that's because he doesn't have anyspace. So what have you got to make him do? In the finalanalysis you've got to make him make space.

How do you make him make space? Well, first you start inwith himself and an idea and then himself and a mock-up.And you keep this up after a while and you'll eventuallydischarge the postulates that are holding him apart - holding him together and he will fly apart. This is an imposition of space.

Now, you can well expect this to happen in processing sucha case: that after you have beautifully gotten off all thematerial by the process which is - we'll go into in amoment - you've gotten off this material, then all of asudden he's uncontrollable in the other direction. Andyou've got to work with him there. In other words, he's nowgot more space than he can handle and he can't collapse itagain. This is a very unhappy condition as far as he'sconcerned.

All right, now let's take, at the same time, lookinginstead of thinking. And we find out that as you collapselooking... Look at the old DEI chart. That's an interesting old chart - Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. And we go down from 40.0 to 0.0 just going through this cycle - Desire, Enforce, Inhibit; Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. Now, let's draw right alongside of that DEI - for each one of these small gradients of DEI, you know - we go from 40.0 to 39.0 to 38.0 to 37.0. We're just going down DEI and then we start over again: 37.0 is Desire, 36.0 is Enforce, 35.0 Inhibit. (They aren't at those positions of the Tone Scale, but just for an example.) And let's draw alongside of it: Look, Emote, Exert; Look, Emote, Exert, Think; Look, Emote, Exert, Think; Look, Emote, Exert, Think. See? DEI, DEI, DEI. In other words, we're going to run this scale all the way down.

The kid's - a little kid - he drives along in an automobile and he's going at such and such a rate of speed. And he findsit's a very happy and beautiful and comfortable thing, inorder to go along like that, because he gets such a nicesensation. And then they speed up a little bit and thislittle kid, boy! he says, "Wheee!" See, he can see allthese anchor points flying in on him again and it gives hima sensation.

Well now, people who ride backwards very often get sick.They ride backwards and they see these anchor pointsflying out away from them and, once more, they get sick.All right. Either way you get sensation. A little kid likesto ride backwards; this gives him another sensation, that'sall.

All right, let's look, then, at this "Look, Emote, Exert,Think" and we find out that there is a tolerance ofone-for-one on any speed per distance. In other words,there is - a certain sensation would be received by somebodygoing at the speed of light. He's going at the speed oflight and the distance to be covered is one light-year.Now, let's just say that is tolerance and he actually wouldget a little sensation on that. It'd be very light.

But supposing he were - the distance to be covered was one light-year and he was going at the speed of 1000light-years. I am sorry if this contravenes Mr. Einstein,who was undoubtedly a very wise man even if he doesn't knowspace opera. It so happens that Einstein must have run intoa planet sometime or another, the way I figure it. He musthave run into a planet with a dull crash when he wastraveling exactly at the speed of light and his eye musthave been on the meter just at the moment of the crash.Because he doesn't think you can exceed it; which I thinkis his way of saying you mustn't exceed it.

Well, all right. We take one light-year and we go at therate of 1000 light-years. At the rate of 1000 light-yearswe're so high above tolerance - let us say justexperimentally - that you would have - a guy would just think about it. At 500, he would actually feel the effort of incoming anchor points; he'd feel the effort of acollapsing space.

For one light-year, his speed of 250 would give him anemotion - he's traveling 250 light-years - this would give him an emotion. And he's traveling at a speed of 3 light-yearsover a course of one light-year; all he would do would beto look it over. See, that'd be a low one.

Now, here you have it more practically: Let's take a walk.You're walking down the street at a very leisurely pace.You're looking - you're looking at the scenery. You'relooking at what comes ahead of you and you're lookingbehind you and so forth. You look when you walk slow.

All right, now, let's speed it up a little bit. And we findout that you get an exhilaration or - not really anexhilaration but you're just pepped up a little bit bywalking a little more rapidly. Now, let's really start toget there.

Now, regardless of the effort exerted by the body or insidethe body, the fact of the matter is that if you were doingthese relative speeds in a car - you see, we've got one blocknow as the distance - the unit distance - and this one block as the unit distance takes us into an emotion when one iswalking fairly well and it takes us into an effort when oneis walking with rapidity. Well, the effort could actuallyexert itself just from watching the anchor points come in.

And theoretically a fellow would just go into a sort of anapathetic thought if he were traveling there at a veryflat-out space. Supposing you were going through town ateighty miles an hour. A guy would just - just would give upat that moment. He would just say, "We'll just think aboutit. I mean, we just can't do anything else. We're helplessso we'll just think about it."

And that is the motto of thinkingness. "I have no forcewith which to resolve the future," is the motto ofthinking. Of course, a man doesn't have force enough tooccupy the whole MEST universe perhaps but that is themotto, "I have no force with which to overcome the future."

The first thought occurred at the moment when a fellowrealized he didn't have enough space. And the first time herealized he didn't have enough space was when he was goingso fast and the space was passing so quickly that he couldonly think about it. Get that this was too bewildering to him.

I think perhaps the speed of change of space here in thisuniverse itself is conducive to thought - that it's one ofthese invisible things that we wouldn't see so thereforewe're thinking about it. The particles of light which go byare quite visible but they're traveling at such a rate ofspeed one can only think about them. Once in a while ascientist gets a little bit higher up scale and startsblowing things up with them like an atom bomb. All right.

What's this mean to your occluded case though? Well, itgives you a good index to this fellow's past in thislifetime. He's been going faster than body tolerance. He'sbeen doing this for probably a long time. And he whizzesalong at this rate and that.

At one time or another, he probably had a passion for speedwhich is to say he had a passion for dangerousenvironments. Life was too dull for him. He had a terrificthirst for motion. And educating himself into this thirstfor motion, he got these anchor points coming back on himwith more impacts, more rapid impacts than he could possibly assimilate, and at length the impacts in the bank - and get this very carefully - the impacts in the bank became a greater certainty to him than the MEST objects which are around him.

I'll just delineate that. The impacts in terms offacsimiles - the energy of facsimiles is sufficiently hardand sufficiently collapsed that it has a greater certaintythan walls of a room. And as puzzled as this fellow looksand so forth, and as upset as he might be, he's usuallyquite sane. He's very sane about what he thinks, and so on;and particularly sane about what he thinks. They're very,very sane people, usually, I mean they're too damn saneoften. But their motion tolerance has gone by the boards tosome degree. And they've gotten to a point where they drivecautiously and so on, quite ordinarily. But their bank, inother words the energy in which they're embedded, has agreater impact value to them than the wall. You see howthat is? All right, so they just travel slower and slowerand slower.

Now, of course, an explosion is just a manifestation ofrapid space - rapid space creation. And implosion is simplyrapid space closure. And rapid space closure as in racingcars or some such things will key in implosions. Once youget rid of your implosions, boy, you sure can enjoy aracing car. But as long as it's sitting there keying inimplosion you don't like it very much.

So here we have - here we have this problem. This fellow hasobviously had, if he's very occluded - stuck in the body -you have more implosions than explosions. At least whatexplosions he saw set off implosions where he was. And ifyou start to run explosions in the future with him - which in itself, by the way, is a very good technique, veryrevelatory to him - explosions in the future, why, you'llfind him waiting. And there's what waiting is. He's waitingfor the next explosion and he just hangs up there.

So here we have - here we have the occluded case in - as a problem in motion and as a problem in space. Well, we'regoing to treat him here as a problem in terminals. And thenext thing we should know about him and understand moreabout him, and the next thing we should know aboutbeingness, not just the occluded case.

This thing shouldn't - just because this is an extreme -remember there's the opposite extreme. There's the person who is an "ox-cluded" case or something. A person who can get no field at all, who will tell you it's all black but there's no energy in it. It's all black but there is no energy in it.

So, here's this person - the person theoretically will bevery, very thin, extremely thin. And they would simply bethin because there is no energy impact anyplace around, yousee? There's a zero certainty and nothingness on the bankand they have a very great terror of nothingness. All right.

You get, then, as we look this over, the solution which isin SOP 8, Step II. Now, although I have given the provisionin the text of 16-G, it shouldn't be run too long. That'sbecause people who work up casually are, shall we say, oncein a while a trifle hopeless or helpless or evenmischievous. And you can make an occluded case just slughimself silly on this and get noplace if you don't know howto run it. And that procedure's put out and needs a lotmore technology before you could run Step II for everycase. But just as you'll see here eventually, we've gotprocess after process all of which do the same thing.

So, do we have in the occluded case a process at II? Imean, we could call him a V, but he will solve at II. Andhere's the way you solve him at II. Very simple. He's aproblem in terminals, then, isn't he? He as a thetan is oneterminal and himself as a body is another terminal. That'sall, he's just a problem in terminals.

Every time he exteriorizes there's sufficient charge onhimself and sufficient charge on the body as terminalsthat they collapse. You see? He cannot maintain the spacebetween himself and the body. And unable to maintain thisspace between himself and the body, he can't exteriorize.And every time he tries to exteriorize, he simply snapsback into the body. Well, you'll get some of these boysoperating like they had rubber bands on them. They pop outfor a split second and they're right back in the bodyagain. Well, this manifestation simply comes from the factthey cannot maintain space.

Now, the postulates - there are many postulates which go tomake this up and you shouldn't get the idea that postulatesdon't lead the field because they do.

Postulates are above looking, but they're also beloweffort. The aberrated postulates which one makes up anddown the bank are the dangerous ones. But a person canactually change his mind almost any time unless he's givinggreater value to the bank and its collections of impactsthan he is to the environment around him. His present timepostulates are as effective as he gives validity to thepresent time environment and as ineffective as he givesattention to the certainty of impacts in his bank. Now youwant to know why the postulates of some people release andsome people don't release. Preclear gets a sudden idea thatso and so, "Well, my father was like that, ha-ha." That'sthe end of the engram. And another fellow gets it, "Myfather's like that" - now he's slugged. What's the differencebetween these two people? It's just the fact that one hasgot more certainty on the impacts in his bank and the onethat it released from has more certainty on present time.

How do you make postulates release? Just give a personterrific certainty on present time. That's of the essence.That's the easy way.

If you want these postulates to pop and Straightwire isn'tworking on your preclear, just use the techniques you knowto give him terrific awareness of present time. Oh,there's dozens of them - dozens of variations. There areactually only - only one basic one which is introversion,extroversion, introversion, extroversion. And we work thisand all of a sudden you'll find his postulates for a littlewhile will go pop, pop, pop! Well, because you ve asked himto make postulates go pop, pop, pop you've introverted himagain, you see, so you'll have to give him awareness onpresent time again.

You actually - this technique is adventured, I've nevertested this, but it's just adventured as workable andthere's no reason why it shouldn't work. You give himpresent time environment and then shoot a postulate, andthen give him the present time environment and shootanother postulate. You ask him who in his - you show him thepresent time environment and then you would ask him, "Whoin your family wore his hair down to his waist?" You see,you've given him present time environment, see? And thenyou'd shoot him this and he would be able, probably, to getthat one postulate, or almost get it that first time, yousee, then you shoot it. And then you'd give him the presenttime environment again and then you'd shoot it once more onanother postulate. And theoretically you could clear a guyon postulates alone if you followed such a technique.That's very theoretical. That's - just never under anycircumstances would you just simply sit down and work onthat basis. I don't think - I don't think the preclearwould like it.

But it theoretically, if you picked up very lightpostulates right at first - and that, by the way, would be about the only way I would know how to work PostulateProcessing or any of these postulate processes such asAP&A. AP&A has been followed by a rash of postulateprocesses in the field; they're just - oh, boy, those things are just plain death.

You can do this trick. There is one auditor in the roomhere had this happen to him three years ago. He probablymay have forgotten it. I was - he came in and he had aheadache or something of the sort and I shot it by simplyasking him a Straightwire question, and the headache wasgone and it stayed gone for three or four minutes. And thenI shoved him into the engram and, of course, the headachecame back. You see that - how that would work?

In other words, you could shoot something out byStraightwire and then you could put a person back to theimpact source; you could bring the impact again up againsthis head and he'd get the thing back. Well, all he did wasseparate from it or shoot just a little bit of it.

Now theoretically, instead of running the engram at thattime I simply could have connected him up with the presenttime - the corners of the room or some such process, yousee - and ask him this question again. And he would give me, promptly, another shot and his headache would go awayagain. His headache would come on and go away, probablyeach time lighter and lighter. And he would probably getrid of the somatic - chronic somatic for keeps.

But regardless of that, you do have with the occluded case,and with any case really, some difficulty about terminals.The body is one terminal and the thetan is anotherterminal. And thetans, as I have said many times, go arounddragging their old tin cans and clanking chains andit's - honest, it's no wonder people talked about ghostshaving clanking chains and bric-a-brac, because thetanssure have the bric-a-brac. Ghosts and tin cans is no jokeat all compared to a thetan and what he's got. Well, he'sgot stolen universes and old search warrants and he's gotalmost everything you could think of. In most cases he'svery, very afraid of one thing: he's terribly afraid ofbeing bored.

Just think what he would do if he didn't have otherpeople's problems. He can't have any problems of his own.There are always other people's problems. You can unwind aperson's problem just that way. Only if you startstraightwiring it, you would have a wonderful time becauseyou'd probably straightwire right back through life afterlife and unwind it and unwind it and unwind it and you'dfinally find out that he was sitting there looking - lookingat something or other saying, "Gee! That's a wonderfulproblem."

Well now, theoretically then, he's operating on a fear ofthe future and the fear is he'll be bored; fear he won'thave anything to do; the fear he won't have any problems.See? And actually the terrific seriousness which he handsyou, and so forth, is just terrific mock-up. It's sobeautiful, though, that even he knows that it's serious. He knows how serious all this is.

This is a test of this - a good therapy, any time, is just to impress somebody with the seriousness of something andthen just keep driving it home and it'll all of a suddenspring, of course, because there's no seriousnessconneeted with it.

The seriousness of other people's problems. Well, when wehave - when we have a person losing space, he gets more andmore interested in other people's problems because he getsmore and more afraid of vanishing. And his idea ofvanishing, you see, is not being able to have any interestor action. And if he can't have interest, his anxiety tohave interest and action is an anxiety to put out anchorpoints.

And you could be sure that if you have two billion peopleon Earth, one planet only, each one anxious to put outanchor points, some point is going to collide. He's sure ofthis.

So when we look this problem over it becomes ratherunserious because Step II can be done. But it shouldn't bedone with any wrinkles. It's done on a gradient scale.You've got to put distance between the thetan and his body.The optimum distance to ask some pc to be out of his headis not three feet but a thetan who will exteriorize atthree feet is a Step I. And this is very, very handy toknow. Because if we put on there three miles or eighteenmiles or something of the sort as the distance he's to beback of his head, you would find, whereas you would getgreater numbers of exteriorization, you would find peoplelousing up lower-toned cases like mad. I've already hadthis experience.

So if the fellow will exteriorize three feet back of hishead, he can handle almost anything while exteriorized. Sothat's just a little sleeper that's on the line there.

And I'll tell you very bluntly that the best distance to beback of one's head is probably a couple, six or eight ortwenty or a couple of million light- years. That's the bestdistance to be back of one's head-way up there, see? Andyou'll find out your very occluded case quite often willjust suddenly spring, because you've got to get him out ofinterchange distance with the body. The second he vaguelyapproaches the body, it's just spong! and he's back in itagain.

Well, now, if you put him out too far away from his body hecan't credit he's there, too - he has that difficulty - becausehe's out in black space so he just thinks he is back in hishead again. And if you put him out in black space, you see,if you put him out there, "Let's be back of your head now athousand miles," - if he's straight back of his head in alineal line a thousand miles, he's in a black space - curvature of the earth allows for that.

So, if he's in black space - let's take a look at this. He's just in the same kind of an atmosphere that he was inbefore which is all black, isn't it? And some of them - someof them are out there. Some of these occluded cases aren'teven vaguely inside their heads. The way you'd bring it tohis attention that he's sitting in space is to startdrilling him on temperatures - temperature perception.Feeling things hot and cold and warm and chilly, breezy,not breezy and he'll come up on perception on just a littlebit of drill because his present time environment is notthis room.

Very often you have to get somebody into his body beforeyou can get him out. It's just like you have to go throughthe dynamics to get out of the dynamics. It's just like youhave to go into looking to get out of thinking. See, afellow can go from thinking to looking very rapidly andthen up to thinking again. See, he runs the whole cycle.

Well, all right. We've got a matched-terminal propositionwith the preclear and a body, with a thetan and the body - strictly a matched terminal. You do, then, Step II ofStandard Operating Procedure 8 or 8-L by mocking up in fullcolor a complete duplicate of the body at some largedistance from the body. I don't care how far away this is.

I worked on one case when I had the body sitting on Earthas a tiny dot and Earth about the size of a golf ball. Wealso found this boy stuck in a theta trap, by the way. Hewas stuck in a theta trap but he was down on Earth but hewas not even in a body. And when he backed up out of thebody, he was straight into the theta trap. Every time webacked him out of the body, he was in the theta trap. Itwas just no wonder, you see, he was just going betweenEarth and the theta trap and Earth and the theta trap. Andwhen we backed him away from the body in this fashion, webacked him away from Earth and the body and the theta trap.And he found himself way up above the theta trap, lookingat the theta trap, and he was perfectly clear. And then thesecond I put him back in his body again, he went back intothe theta trap to go back into the - to Earth. This ispretty silly. But that's what he was doing.

So, you'll find people who go back into their heads andstay there are up against the problem of too littledistance. They put out a beam, push themselves out oftheir heads; this is too short a distance for them for theamount of energy they have - get this idea of tolerance ofdistance. They put out a fast beam over a tiny little bitof space and, of course, it was crushed, and boy, does thatfeel degrading. That's degradation. It's just a massivebeam over a tiny space and it's thick, heavy, soupy - gohlup!The guy feels like he is in terrible shape when you do this.

So you want him to just keep mocking up his body andmocking up his body and mocking up his body and mocking uphis body. Doing things? No! No. Let's not get this as asubjective technique. This is a real sneaker. This is not asubjective technique. It's a gradient scale technique. Itgoes from a nothing of a body out in front of you tosomething of a body out in front of you, which is to say amock-up, to a little bit of the body out in front of you,to the body indistinctly out in front of you, to the bodyvery distinct out in front of you, to the body in fullcolor out in front of you, to you the hell and gone awayfrom the body and your concentration comes off of the body,you see? Because you're trying to get the guy's attentionoff his body, that's all we have to that.

So what do you do here? You just keep mocking up this body.From what? From an idea of a body? Do you mock two bodiesout there? No, because you're not trying to process thebody. You mock up one body; remember that, that'simportant - you mock up one body. You're only trying to maketwo-dimensional space anyhow. You could mock up two morethetans and one body. You could mock up a thetan to theright and a thetan to the left and a body out in front, butyou don't want two bodies out there!

Well, this guy will get some very silly things - if you look at a preclear once in a while, while you're outexteriorized and once in a while see the mirrors.Explosions have a mirror effect and they'll hold explosionsaround with their center mirrors, you know? And they'll usethem as mirrors. Out in space they're just as flat andshiny as anything you ever saw. You just pack an explosiontogether just right and it's a perfrct mirror - just beautiful!

So, they use these mirrors. And if a person - if you can ask a preclear just to look around him and tell you what he sees, he'll look around the body, and - from inside hishead - and quite often he'll come up and volunteer this. Butif he doesn't volunteer it, you can always show them tohim. But too many of them volunteer this. They'll lookaround and they see that there's a mirror over here on theright side of them and it's showing up their body and justlike a mirror would. And there's a mirror over here andit's showing up their body and there's a mirror in front ofthem and a mirror behind. They're all penned in by theirown mirrors. Well, it's very comforting - any way they lookthey see their body. It's a wonderful gimmick. Well youtake these and break them and it almost breaks their heart.These are just interesting, you see. They're just gimmicks.

Well, a lot of people have, as they start to mock up thebody, they get the idea they're in front of their face.Why? Because instead of mocking up the body, they look inthe mirror. They look up in the mirror in front of theface, so they see the front of the face and you get somekind of a dizzy prism effect. They really play games -crazy-house mirrors.

They look at themselves; look at the body as reflected in amirror and then they don't have to get a mock-up of it andall sorts of darn things. Or, "I'm out in front of myface," they will say. Or, "I can't do that, I keepsplitting in half and I'm going out sideways!" And, "I amreally the body and a thetan is attacking me," is theirfavorite one.

The fellow really begins to feel this until he realizessuddenly that that face somatic which he has been packingmost of his life - when people get angry at him and soforth - that face somatic is the back of his head. He feels,as a thetan, he is actually stuck on the back of his headlooking through the eyes of the body. He's actually way inback of the body. I mean, he's right back here, you see,better than half out of the body, you see? And thepressure, the whole pressure against which he is fighting,is the pressure of his own body caved in on the MEST body.But because he is all the sensation there is in the bodyand it - because it is against his face as a thetan - youroccluded cases are very complete thetans; they carry aroundall sorts of odds and ends of bodies; they have a body as athetan - because he's got the sensation himself, he as athetan is pressed up against the back of the body so hewears the somatic because he is trying to be the body onthe front of the body's face.

And this gives people the doggonedest ideas! They say,"Well, you know I actually have two thetans." When I firstdiscovered this manifestation I was talking to a smallgroup of people about it, and 50 on, and I explained thatit was old facsimiles. Very inexperienced in this, didn'thave a similar sensation and this small group of peoplewere perfectly willing with this. But one of them suddenlystarts coming up, and has been ever since, with thetansenior and thetan junior. Oh boy, he's squirreling on justone thing: he's probably on the back of his body with hisface as a thetan pushed up against the back of the head ofthe body. You got a collapsed terminal there and the onlysensation he has, actually, is sensation as a thetan. Sohe, of course, mocks it up for the body. He's the only onethat's putting any sensation into the body. The body's justtoo close to him so he can emote through the body, you see.And when he gets that close, he doesn't even emote well.His emotions are fixed.

Now, there is a process merely by which you would ask aperson to expand his anchor points an inch at a time, as asphere, one inch further out from him, see? Get thatprocess? There is a process by which you can do that. Justget him used to having them farther out. There's anotherprocess and you could always show a person what he'sworried about, simply by saying, "What are you thinkingabout? Well, all right, put it there about a foot in frontof your face."

The guy says, "What?"

"Well, think about it a foot in front of your face. Okay,now put it a yard in front of your face. Put it a hundredyards in front of your face. Put it two light-years infront of your face. What's it look like?"

"Well," he says, "my father!"

Of course, it becomes visible. You just make him stretch itand the thought uncollapses and you get a visibility.

In the same way, remember that you mock up this body a footaway or two feet away, it isn't so good. But also if youmock it up a billion miles away, it isn't so good eitherbecause you're not mocking it up so that it's going to dohim any good because you want this thetan in the room. Youdon't want him out in space someplace. You're trying topull him out of that. So mock him up at least ten feetaway - at least ten feet away. He'll sometimes becomebothered because he has to see through a wall and puzzledabout mocking up the wall and mocking up the body and thenseeing the body, and so forth, so keep him in the room butget the most space you can. So, if you're going to do thisexercise, put him, more or less, with his back into theroom. And then he'll feel comfortable and you aren't askinghim to penetrate and go through walls as well as mock upthe body at the same time. You're just getting toocomplicated, you see. It's too complicated for him.

So you'd say if you had an eight-foot room, just set him inthe corner - set the body in the corner and process him moreor less behind him a little bit and have a lot of spaceback of him. And then have him start mocking up the bodyand mocking it up and mocking it up. How long would you dothis? Just go on and on. Well, don't mock up the bodytwice. That one you must remember because all you will dois discharge the body.

He's happy to do that. He'll fool around with the body allday long. He thinks bodies are wonderful. Now, you'llsometimes find him trying to mock up and get out of a bodyin front of him before he gets out of the body behind himor he gets out of his own body. He's gone through his bodyand is - thinks he's really stuck in some other body thatisn't there. Well, remember this is a technique which is anobjective technique; it's not a subjective technique soyou're not interested in cleaning up any other bodies asfar as Step II is concerned.

But what is reality? The reality of the thing is he has abody there, it is dressed a certain way and it is in acertain position and he can move back of it; so that'sreality. So let's just keep putting that body there. Nobodyelse around it - anything - let's just mock it up real. Becauseyou're really not mocking it up at all. You're taking aviewpoint way back of his head and then finally making himassume that viewpoint without collapsing in against the body.

It's reality. You're asking him to contact present time,not the past. So you want the body he's in, dressed as itis, positioned as it is and without any other fancybusiness to it at all.

And that's Step II in complete essence; that's all it is.

[Please note: an addition to this lecture was given laterin the day. We now continue where the lecture resumed.]

This is an added note onto the morning lecture.

There are variations of this technique. One of thevariations - there are many variations to it; you could getreal fancy if you wanted to. But once you start crossingreality and mock-ups for a fellow, he's crossing realityand mock-ups all the time, so he gets awfully upset. Butthere are variations on this technique.

It is more important - you can put this down in green fire -it is more important to get a line admired than it is histerminals. The line is more important than the terminals.It is the line that is important on Admiration Processing,not the terminals.

So, if you were to mock up his body and then mock up awhole bunch of people down below admiring the line betweenthe body and himself, you would assist the dissolution ofthat line. Or if you would simply ask him to keep mockingup lines between himself and the body, they would keepvanishing. You've got at last the body mocked up, see? Nowyou keep having him mock up lines between himself and thebody, why, he'll snap back into the body and snap outagain. And eventually he'll get enough energy there so thatthe line itself - the lines which are holding him in, thecollapsed terminals holding him in - will permit him toexteriorize since they'll uncollapse.

Now, the other one is, is you start getting explosionsbetween himself and the body. But just as you saw here in ademonstration a short time ago, after the fellow had beennebulously exteriorized.

And by the way, as a word in passing, never try to sellanybody on the idea he's exteriorized; he's going to fightagainst you.

He's exteriorized out there someplace. He found out, gee,he got nice explosions between himself and the tree. Isthat right? He got better explosions between himself andthe tree than he did between himself and the body.

And so, what do we have, then, as an alternate technique?It's to run both black and white explosions between theviewpoint where the thetan now is and the body mock-up.Now, you could theoretically run explosions between himselfand that space. You'd find out he'd get space - he'd getexplosions very ably and beautifully right up to himselfabout halfway down the line toward the body, you see? Butthe half of the line that's close to the body, noexplosions there.

You'll also get various face somatics. Look out for this,because you're not doing anything peculiar. The fellow'sgoing to get face somatics every once in a while. He neverhad any sensation in the front of his face, he'll tell youso, many times, if you ask him. But the point is that hecan't have any sensation in the front of his face becausehe's - all the sensation he's got he has changed to his thetabody.

When we say theta body we simply mean some body that he'sconcocted out of screens or old Fac Ones or something ofthe sort. Once upon a time he found he could make goodbodies. But one has to know how to mock up the MESTuniverse before one finishes it up and can completelyduplicate the MEST universe.

So the alternate technique for this would simply beDuplication. And this would be on the gradient scale ofduplication. So, you would - to run this technique verysmoothly - you would simply start the fellow out byDuplication as given in Six Steps to Better Beingness. Andyou just run Duplication and all of a sudden slide him into mocking up his body.

You've taken the curse off his whole environment withDuplication. Now let's take the body. See, that would bethe gradient scale of the technique.

Negative Exteriorization - interesting technique. You tell afellow, "Try not to be a foot back of your head. Try not tobe a yard back of your head," and so forth - pow! Every oncein a while he is, but the person has to be at a certainposition on the Tone Scale. He has to be inhibiting. Youget this DEI? Well, it runs on a DEI. There's a level therewhere he'll inhibit. Well, that DEI is applicable to Lookand then it's applicable to Emote and then it's applicableto Exert and then it's applicable to Think. So there's aDEI for each one of those steps of Look, Emote, Exert andThink. See, Desire, Enforce, Inhibit as you start down ToneScale.

Well, the fellow is trying to inhibit himself from stayingin his body. He's trying to enforce himself from staying inhis body or he desires to be in his body. Of course,originally on the track he was curious about bodies, thedarn fool.

Negative exteriorization occurs under these conditions andyou tell the fellow to start mocking up his body in frontof him and of course the inhibition on the line makes himstart mocking up his body behind him. Well, don't pay anyattention to it. Just keep mocking up the body in front of him.

Now, you'd alternate this technique. You alternate itvariously with other techniques.

Now today in - I want you to work with this particulartechnique and work with Duplication on your own case andit'll do you a lot of good. And then work with thisparticular step until we understand this step and get itall beaten to pieces. Because it's a very interesting step.It starts with duplication in its best use and winds upwith mocking up the body.

Remember all steps apply to an exteriorized thetan as wellas to interiorized. And actually work better on somebodyexteriorized than they do interior; and that includes allsteps. Now, one thing more in passing: You are not asked touse very much imagination in processing. One of the thingsthat I've had complaint about is that one had to be tooimaginative (I just mentioned this before but I'll mentionit again) to run SOP 8. Because in IV you had to imaginethings to be wasted. That's the one thing you mustn't do.You just tell the pc to waste it. The pc says, "Well, wasteit! What'd you say for me to waste?"

And you'll say, "Waste vomit."

"I can't waste vomit."

Then he finally finds out that he only can waste vomit byvomiting when he's by himself. And then he suddenlydiscovers that his mama was easily handled by getting sickat the stomach. And that Mama resembles wife and that wifeis sick at the stomach and that's why he had three-quartersof his stomach cut out by a surgeon not too long ago.

The end product of all Freudian self-analysis is ExpandedGITA. And it works so much faster than Freudian analysisand takes in so much broader territory than Freudiananalysis and yet works out Freudian analysis, so we can saywith Step IV of Expanded GITA that we've knocked in thehead any question about, any necessity for, following downanything like Freudian analysis, because you've got itright there.

There's another little step in Expanded IV (because you'llbe doing this and I have to tell you this), is there is asave. After wasting you find there's a saving before you gointo an accepting. Of course it has its variation ofAcceptance Level Processing which is merely you get thelowest level the fellow can accept. And you have a tendencyto miss the lowest level he can accept when you keepwasting things because you just gloss over that. If youreally want to find out about the case you find out whichof the level of the item he can accept and it's really grim.

All right. Not to belabor that too much, remember that anytype of this subjective processing, as of Expanded GITA,has a tendency to lower the person into an introversion.And the only process I know of which is a borderline,which is neither extroverted nor introverted, which is bothsubjective and objective, and goes at it from both sides ofthe middle is Step Il - mock up his own body. And that can be a benefit to anybody we have in the room.

Mocking up your own body from outside, just mock it up. Ifyou get bored with it, mock it up and blow it up. If you'rea good Step I, getting terrific perception on it and soforth, why, don't just keep mocking it up forever - mock itup and blow it up.

But it's a wonderful way to return accurate perception. Athetan would rather see the facsimile of what he is lookingat than look at it. See, he'd rather do the approximation,look at the approximation than to do a direct perception ofthe exterior or the interior of it - in other words,pervasion. So it helps a person differentiate between themock-up and real contact.

Okay. That's all I have to say.

[end of tape.]

1st ACC - 10

Tape number 661 onthe Flag Master List.

SOP: STEP II

A lecture given on 12 October 1953

This is the afternoon of August [October] the 12th.

And here we have a discussion of the technique we weretalking about this morning, which is to say Step II ofStandard Operating Procedure 8. And our discussion couldconcern itself with what you have observed directly, ofcourse, but it also should first concern itself with whatdifficulty, if any, you have with the technique, or whatquestion you have about the technique or any questionremains in your mind concerning the technique.

Before I go into that, however, I'm going to - I rememberan old gag. One day a rooster had been outside thebarnyard. The rooster was pushing an ostrich egg. And hepushed this ostrich egg to the barnyard fence - he pushedthis big ostrich egg. And he got into the barnyard and allthe hens gathered around. And he looked around him and hesaid, "I don't mean to complain, girls, but I wanted toshow you what's being done elsewhere."

So this really isn't in that spirit. But ...

Well, what can happen? I had a year to make an organizationout of nothing, and it got there. But I had a year to trainand indoctrinate people and they fortunately started outstraight up from SOP 1. And I actually released the firstcodified procedure in Great Britain with the first lecturewhich I made to British auditors. There was a little groupthere about twice the size of this group and we were ableto push everything along pretty well and watch the resultsand see what happened. And it's really just begun to happenover there. But look at the - look at the techniques they'rewilling to use.

I'll read you some of these things.

This is a preclear who is seventy-six years of age - female.She had a pain in her right shoulder from a motor accident.She had rheumatism in the left leg and she had inflammationof the bladder due to an operation and it's - had endured for seven years. And lots of medical classification and theprevious case history available. And the disability had notdisabled her to a considerable extent but it had made herconsiderably uncomfortable very uncomfortable.

Well, these original report forms, the British - written down here is the number of hours in session. And this has been altered, in all the reports I receive these days, tominutes. And number of minutes in session: "Thirtyminutes." The technique employed is Straightwire andShifting Centers, Certainty and Step I - exteriorization.In other words, they did Straightwire, Shift Centers,Certainty, Step I and then they got her exteriorized. Idon't know where this case was at the beginning, but itcouldn't have been too far down the line, believe me.

Now, the technique workability or defects noted: "Excellentworkability." And now we have the results noted - whendischarged: "Wonderfully relaxed after processing. Pcreturned home but a later letter states all is well." Andthe difference in appearance: "Can't tell as she is not inthe area."

Well, that's one case of seventy-six. Everybody knows youcan't do psychotherapy on a person above fifty.

Okay. Now, here we have a boy who's thirteen years old andhe had asthma. Now, this is the beginning and a lot ofthese will start coming in on the asthma program becausethe HAS in Great Britain has simply set out to knock outasthma in Great Britain. "Had asthma especially in winterand caused by the east winds - and usually Christmas. Andit's..." so on and so on, but it's, oh yes, "Tradition ofasthma on the father's side and it's endured since birth."And the medical classification: "Asthma." Psychiatricclassification (present doctor) - this evidently hassomething to do with psychiatry. And the extent that thedisability has inhibited him: "His attack lasts for one ortwo weeks in bed." Otherwise, it didn't hit him hard.Number of - again, cross out - number of minutes in session:"Fifty-five." Technique employed: "Straightwire, ShiftCenters, Wasting and Enforcing good air, also bad air. Andthat was the routine procedure I laid down on asthma, withthe fact that we had some Straightwire and Shifting Centersthrown in there too.

All right. Technique workability or defects noted: "Wastedgood air five times and also enforced three times and thenincreased speed. And the fourth waste of bad air, rapidclouds of green, red, black, gray and white flew off; andenforced bad air as wavy fingers and bubbles included insecond enforcement; and exteriorization - pam! Step I."Second session: "Second session was forty-five minutes ofSSSA. Had to handle father's and mother's and brother'sheads on opposite poles. Certain that winds and so forthwill not cause him asthma and he looks more alert andhappier. Mter wasting/enforcing air, the pc was not surewhether winds would give him asthma or not. Ran doubleterminals on 'Air gives me asthma - air doesn't give measthma' and 'I want air' and 'I do not want air' and 'Birthgave me asthma - did not give me asthma.' And this gave himcertainty on that and after that, why, he was certain windsdidn't give him asthma."

Here's another one: "Thirteen. Male." No previous report.And he was "born with eczema and asthma. And asthma stoppedat two years and left hay fever." And he's had thiscondition bad; been bad off since birth. He's had hayfever, no cure, the doctors had stated to him. All right.Psychiatric: Well, they didn't know. Extent disability hasinhibited activity: "Allergy to cats, pollen and..." acouple other items here. Oh, my, my, my, here's a long listof things - here's a long list of things to which he'sallergic. Number of - again crossed out - minutes inprocessing: "Fifty." "Straightwire, Shift Centers andCertainty on Troubled Parts ran twice, double terminals,on..." these various things on which he was allergic,such as cats and fish and eggs and so forth and so on. And then Step I - exterior.

You notice he's working this technique, by the way,backwards. He should be working it quite in reverse tothis, but he's still getting there.

Technique workability or defects noticed: "Worked mostpositively. Strong tendency to go into an engram which hewas kept from doing. And he appeared happier. And he puthis head in a bush full of the pollen to which he isallergic and took several lungsful. It didn't even vaguelyupset him."

Male voice: That's what you call certain.

Well, here is almost the identical case history: anotherthirteen-year-old boy. "Eczema at birth left asthma; acutein winter," and So on and so on and so on, winds, and soon, and medical classification: "Asthma." "Dislike of sleepduring attack and attack lasts three or four days." Andthis again is thirty minutes. "Shift Centers, Straightwire,Certainty run twice on 'something here,' and so forth. ThenStep I - exterior. Immediate certainty after process that the above would not give him asthma." Second session:"Forty-five minutes of SSSA. Had to handle Mother's headand own upside down. And he's alert and brighter."

Well, here's a male case: "Fifty-six. Pain in right thighand knee, some rheumatism, but said it was due to a cutmuscle in a fistula operation." And how long has thisendured: "It's endured about seven years." And he's hadoperations. And the extent the disability has inhibitedhim: Well, he'd seize up and - after sitting - and so forth and various manifestations. Thirty minutes is the numberof - amount of processing and his - technique was employed is Certainty on the Past and Step I - exterior. The techniqueworkability or defects noted: "Excellent" and "No pain" - this is after difference in appearance - "No pain.Freedom from weather affecting the limb. Pc could not besure for about ten days but now is so."

And - well, there's no reason to go on. I've got some more.But the point is that there is where your techniques arenarrowing down.

Now, you have a tradition of long cases because you came inwith Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Yourviewpoint on cases is a long viewpoint. We haven't had thatviewpoint in Great Britain. The auditor isn't sitting therewith a postulate that he's going to have to work at it. Asa result he works very short and snappy on the whole thing.

Now - gives you some idea that if you had a very positiveapproach on a technique and you just went right after it ina businesslike fashion, the Q-and-A factor of processingwould be way up. See, you get that Q-and-A differencethere. And more important than that, you would spend alittle time sitting there sorting it out. You'd spend timebefore you processed rather than time during processing.

Just taking a look at the guy, you see he's rather heavilybuilt, you see he's this, you see he's that. He talks for alittle bit and doesn't pay much attention; he's got aspecific reason why he came to see you; he's wary. Or ifyou're just processing him under duress - you know, sort ofpinned him in a subway or something - he's got a specificreason for not talking to you. And with all this we havefast processing.

And if I could I would pull this trick. It's a dangeroustrick; it'll lose you preclears just by the fact they won'tcome back. I ordinarily for some reason or other am doingthis. I will process somebody or talk to somebody in twosessions. In the first session, just the first session,I'll just talk to them. I'll not ask them to do anything.And I won't talk to them for longer than about five or tenminutes. Just an interview to find out whether or notthey're going to be processed according to them. Andtwenty-four hours later, bust their case wide open; makethem come back at the same period the next day.

Well, this doubles up the amount of appointments you haveor something like that. But you would discover, I amsure - I'm not advising you to do this; it's not a vitalthing; it's just a matter of opinion - that you would lose,in doing so, in the preclear, that barrier which he erectsthe first time he ever meets anyone. And you would have,then, on your second session a preclear who had alreadytested the surroundings and found them not dangerous.

Whereas, if he were to put up his barrier and you startedprocessing him, he's trying to do two things at once: getused to his environment and so forth. Also, he would have areluctance to confide in you unless he'd known you for sometime. Well, twenty-four hours is good enough. He now knowsyou, see. He hasn't just met you. This makes a slightdifference.

Well, the fact that he isn't holding in is very good for anauditor. An auditor then finds it quite easy to simply drophis - drop into his space or drop some space around him, soto speak, just to include him in. You're not operating,then, against a barrier. And it's a pretty good practiceand I would at least do it this way. I don't follow thatdown with kids. Kids are pretty overt. You talk to them andso forth, and it only takes a couple of moments to adjust achild to where he is, because he's not lost, whereas yourpreclear is lost.

I would do it on somebody who appeared to be to me a ratherdifficult case. I look at this person and I give him acouple of test questions and all of a sudden realize I'mlooking at a very rough, rough case, according to his ownlights, and just make him come back twenty-four hourslater. And explain it to him on the order of "Well, yourcase is a very special one and I don't have quite enoughtime to give you what you deserve right here at the moment.And so you come back in twenty-four hours, because I'm veryinterested in your case because I've never seen quiteanything like it." And you're all set. He'll come back -don't worry about that - if you tell him that. And all he's doing is giving you - he's holding up a mock-up for youto admire anyhow. And he's held it up to everybody andfinally gotten in the habit of doing so. Now he knows he'sin trouble, but he doesn't know why he's in trouble andhe's forgotten why he's started to do this thing. It's allvery simple. Now, you don't - you don't get him anyplace bysimply telling him, "You're just doing this thing becauseyou want somebody to admire your mock-ups." Yeah, that'sreally the only reason he's doing it. All right.

What then is the solution on a very difficult case as faras processing is concerned? If a case is difficult, thecase isn't looking and the case is wary. The case is inpresent time on a hectic or arduous or apathy basis - they'rejust there - and it's a present time to which they'recompletely unaccustomed and they're sure - they went therewith the postulates "Something is going to happen," yousee; "Something dreadful or something - the Chinese are goingto jump out of the walls with long knives, or something ofthe sort and hack me to pieces if I take my attention offof that wall. And you don't want this to happen and..."

You upset him when you say, "I'll come back tomorrow."You've introduced that lag and you upset him becauseyou've upset his postulate. Well, that puts you withaltitude. You made him wrong. Make him wrong that much, nowyou can make him wrong further, because he also has thepostulate, "He can't do anything for me. There is noremedy." And you've made him right to that degree. Hedidn't get remedied that day. And he kind of has a tendencyto lay it all aside.

If I had a lot of very rough cases to do over again - and Ido mean a lot of very rough cases - very, very rough cases;maybe rougher than you'll ever run into. Because these guyswere, to a large degree, being processed under duress. Theydidn't want any processing, and so forth. And running intothis, every time - mind you now, this is without - withouta single exception - every time I'd process somebody whowas a rough case, I have wished like mad before I washalfway through the session that I had simply dropped in aninterview on the basis, because the person was fending sohard that we never had any time for processing and noenergy left for anything but defense.

Now, you see that? See what that is there? It's not aproblem of you. It's a problem of the preclear. Of course,it gets you into the sloppy habit of thinking about itlater. But you'll be surprised that this will happen: Yourclarity on this person's case twenty-four hours later willbe very great. Very great clarity. You'll know the nextmorning - you'll suddenly think about the case - you'll know exactly what's wrong with him.

Well, you really don't have to - you don't have to know that much to process these days. You don't have to have anintuition. We needn't enter any uncertainty or guessworkinto it at all. But it does happen that that is the case.We know what we should have done. And if we didn't do it,then we can do it. An auditor who even vaguely is running"I know what I should have done," of course, now can dowhat he should have done because he didn't do it. Verysimple. Well, so much for that.

The indoctrination of the British auditor is faster,shorter operation entirely. And it tells you something whenyou look at that little set of cases there: They're all ontwo sides of the easy process. Anybody can tell you inpsychoanalysis that the processing of children is the mostdifficult thing anybody ever attempted. And they can tellyou as well that the processing of very old people is themost difficult thing ever attempted. And these cases areall on the junior or the senior - senior side, on age.

Now, it might be a very good thing for you to just layaside on a case that's going to take a long time. If youthink it's going to take a long time as you confront thecase, see him tomorrow.

Now, a lot of you, in the processing you've done in thislast week or so, have picked up a computation on the casesyou have processed after you've processed the person. Yougo walking down the street and you all of a sudden say, "Iknow what was wrong with him." Then you might not get acrack at this preclear again right off the base. So if youhave something like that - "I know what's wrong withhim" - why, just go and bust his case. Just put it up. Justarrange scheduling or swap preclears or something andfinish it off. Because it's a piece of unfinished businesswith you and you might as well run the cycle.

It is really too bad - too bad that we don't have right here at this moment a tradition of each one of you with a certainty on what you can do, but that is what we aretrying to arrive at. A man is never an auditor until he'staken a case so fouled up that even slashing the Gordianknot or Standard Operating Procedure 45 couldn't possiblyhave cleared the case, worked on the case for a littlewhile and had the case straighten out. This is quite anexperience and the oftener it happens, the more certain theauditor gets that he can create an effect.

If auditors could just create that effect, you see, theywouldn't ever need any processing, and their own cases justblow up in their faces. That's the truth of the matter.Because you say, "Wow, super!" create that effect and therest of it starts following out.

All right. What did you find out now about SOP 8, Step II?

Male voice: Well, in running it I was content to just mockup one body out there in a chair and I could sit and lookat it all day. It seemed pretty nice and interesting.However, I threw several of them away and...

Hm?

Male voice: I threw several of them away. And running it onthe preclear, the preclear seemed to have better luckputting a new one up there periodically. It got a littlebetter each time. Detail, in other words, was better.

But you kept putting them up there?

Male voice: No, I didn't. The preclear did.

You didn't. You just put one up there and looked at it.

Male voice: Oh, I put several but I'd just as soon put oneand sit there and look at it.

Who let him do this?

Female voice: I did.

Who?

Female voice: Me.

You did that? Yeah, well, on that step level that you'reprocessing there, they're very content to do that. And ifyou double-terminal them, they will hold them endlessly.They'd be perfectly happy about holding a double terminalthere if they get it up at all. They'll just go on and holdit. There - it's a dramatization of no motion.

So the way to break this thing down is another method ofdoing it. I can give you a variation on that.

You don't process the preclear sitting down. He's too happyabout it. Anytime your preclear is too happy about aprocess, do something because it means it's not goinganyplace. If he gets real happy about a process, linecharging, that's something else. But if he's just contentwith this process, beat him to death.

Now, I'll show you how this works. Here you are. Come over here.

Male voice: Chair?

Nope. Nope. No! That's just what we don't want.

Male voice: That's what I was afraid of

LRH: Turn your back to the room - your back to the room. Allright, now move one step to the right. That's right. Nowmove a step to the left. Move another step to the left.Move another step to the right. There we go. Now, as we aremoving one step to the right and one step to the left,let's mock up the body in front of you doing just that andgoing through those motions until we get the full muscularcoordination of this. All right, let's do that.

PC: Well, that's easy.

LRH: That's real easy. Okay, let's see how much of themuscular sensation we can get into that mock-up.

PC: Okay.

LRH: See how much of the muscular sensation you can getinto it. Let's see if we can get the weight on the balls ofthe feet.

PC: Yeah, I've got that.

LRH: You got that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Good.

PC: If you weren't the auditor of this I wouldn't like it.

LRH: You wouldn't, huh?

PC: Nah.

LRH: Okay, now put your arms out at shoulder height as aspread eagle. Okay, now get the body doing that.

PC: Yeah.

LRR: Now, move it from left to right.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Mock it up doing just that.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Got that?

PC: Yeah, that's easy!

LRH: Good, now let's twist at the hips as we take the step.

PC: Okay

LRH: That's right.

PC: Ah!

LRH: That's right.

PC: Dancing!

LRH: Huh? There we go. Okay, get that mocked up real well.Let's see if we can get the heat in the body as it doesthat now.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Get the heat in it real well?

PC: Yeah, pretty good. Not real good.

LRH: All right, let's get the darkness inside the skull andlet's look at that.

PC: Oh, boy, that's easy.

LRH: That's real easy. Well, get it over there in the mock-up.

PC: Yeah, sure. It was bound to be dark.

LRH: That's right. Now, let's get some blobs of energyflying around the mock-up, as you stand this way.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Now let's shift them and make them blob the other way.

PC: Boy, they're sure going all around him. Let's see now.All right.

LRH: All right, let's just mock up the rest of the room asthe body is doing that now - no other people necessarily- just mock up the rest of the room.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Got that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Well, let's get the space depth in the room.

PC: Got it.

LRH: Good, let's get the body doing that now and the spacedepth. Let's see if we can get some color into the body inthe room.

PC: Sure.

LRH: Real good, huh?

PC: Bound to get color in there.

LRH: Bound to, huh? Okay. And let's see now if you can findno body right where the body is. That mock-up - find it's nomock-up.

PC: Yeah. Did that.

LRH: Now find the mock-up there.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Now find no mock-up there.

PC: The arms of the mock-up are getting tired.

LRH: Well, get the tiredness into the mockup.

PC: Well, I am.

LRH: Okay. Real good, real good. Now put your hands down atyour side. Now let's be about eight feet back of your head.

PC: Well, I'm not certain.

LRH: Okay, what do you get instead when I ask you to do that?

PC: Well, I get a little motion.

LRH: Hm?

PC: A little motion.

LRH: A little motion. What's the motion?

PC: A kind of a swaying motion.

LRH: You do?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Do you get any perception on anything there?

PC: No.

LRH: Feeling?

PC: Just that swaying motion.

LRH: Hm?

PC: Just the swaying motion.

LRH: I see. I see. You do get a swaying motion?

PC: That's right.

LRH: All right. Let's mock up that body in front of youvery complete and exact right now, with all the weight on it.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Got that?

PC: Yeah, I've got it out there about ten feet.

LRH: Okay. Now, let's run explosions between you and it.The lines - explode the lines between you... Put a couple of lines there and then blow them up.

PC: Mmm.

LRH: Easy to do?

PC: Yeah, as easy as any of the rest of it.

LRH: Well, put a couple more lines there and blow them up.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Where are these lines exactly?

PC: Well, lput one from the middle of the forehead of thisbody to the back of the head of that other body, and onefrom about the middle of the chest to the middle of theback of the other body.

LRH: Uh-huh. Did they blow up easily?

PC. Yup.

LRH: Good, let's just keep putting the lines in there andblowing them up.

PC: Same place?

LRH: Mm-hm. Got that?

PC: Yeah, the explosion seems to tend to come - more of it- this way than the other way. I don't mind, but that's theway it is.

LRH: They come more toward you than...?

PC: The force of them. Yeah.

LRH: Uh-huh. Well, pull in some more and make them blow.

Now just move your body into the same position as that mock-up.

PC: Just for a little bit.

LRH: Hah! Okay, that's all.

Did you notice any difference of exteriorization or anysnap out and in?

Male voice: There's a snap out and in.

Notice any change in it?

Male voice: Well, it was easier.

It was easier.

Male voice: Well, it never has been hard, but it always isfrightening.

Did it - did it frighten you so much?

Male voice: It didn't at all that time.

There we go. See, I'm not trying to belabor you withanything, but the other technique would be this: You wouldmock up as you went that - did that - mock-up that body. Thisgets a little complex, but you could mock-up an admiringthrong admiring those communication lines that connect youwith the mock-up. And get this admiring throng looking upunderneath between the mock-up and the body, you see? Andget it admiring those communication lines and admiring yourdetermination there, and admiring those lines; get that,admiring those lines. And as you go forward on that, yougradually get these lines more and more and more.

Actually, the pc is scared stiff of his body when he doesthat. Every once in a while a pc will come around and takeone look at a body and he'll practically jump through hisskull.

Male voice: I could tell you an experience like that.

Huh?

Male voice: I could tell you an experience like that.

What is it?

Male voice: One time down in Phoenix I mocked up my bodyand took my time with it - toenail by toenail and so forth- from the floor up. And I made it go sit down in the chairfor two hours while I did other mock-ups. They were prettygood then - the mock-ups. All at once I got scared. And Ididn't know what I was scared of, so I unmocked all my junkand started over again, but it didn't cure it.

Hm. Hm. Well, this is the same...

Male voice: Pretty good mock-ups then, too, by the way.

You had better mock-ups then than you do now?

Male voice: Mm-hm. Mm-hm.

Well, your mock-ups have deteriorated?

Male voice: Mmm!

Well, what made them deteriorate?

Male voice: I'll be darned if I know. I thought I must beafraid of the body. I couldn't think of anything else inthere to be afraid of.

Hm-mm. You're not afraid of the MEST universe. As you - asyou go forward through this, oh, you would just continue that.

Who got exteriorized more easily on this technique?

Male voice: l think I scooted up a few times.

Did you snap back in?

Male voice: Hmm, a little bit.

Mm-hm. Is that the first time you've been exteriorized easily?

Male voice: Mmm. It was easier than ever before, I believe.

Mm-hm. Who got easier exteriorization or better perceptionon this technique?

Male voice: I got better perception.

Better perception.

Male voice: Yes.

Mm-hm.

Male voice: I mocked up a very large mock-up of myself, waydown in Delaware Bay, a mile or two high.

Mm-hm.

Male voice: And I got very good visio on it.

Mm-hm. That's afterwards.

Male voice: Hm?

That's afterwards.

Male voice: After what?

No, don't tell me you did Step II by mocking yourself updown in Delaware Bay. Of course, you got a communication...

Male voice: Uh-huh.

.. exchange on this, I shouldn't be objecting. But youshould've just mocked yourself up in a chair.

Male voice: I was in a chair down in Delaware Bay.

Oh! You did the same scene?

Male voice: Yeah!

On that size proportion.

Male voice: Yeah.

Oh, I see. Same scene.

Male voice: Mm-hm.

Well, that's what you're supposed to do. That's what you'resupposed to do. We have - the reason for the motion there,is the aliveness of the mockup - the aliveness of this. Andas the guy slides out, he's having to keep the body inmotion. And he'll get fascinated with this problem: thefact that he can still keep the body in motion althoughhe's outside. It's for a little bit higher level of casethan the one we just demonstrated it on.

Step II is having motion difficulty with the body already.He's gone from Step I to an incomplete belief that he willbe able to control the body if he gets outside. He's just alittle bit afraid of this.

Well, now, how much of this rocking from side to side wouldyou take, and so forth? Wear him out. Wear him out if youwere doing this technique. Do it for an hour.

You felt yourself come out? Why, tell me this - this is apeculiarity here - tell me this: Why weren't youexteriorizing at first as you did that?

Male voice: Well, I was paying too much attention to this body.

How were you paying attention to this body?

Male voice: Well, I was picking up what's in it to put inthe other one.

You also want to keep in communication with a preclear. Didyou just hear what this man said?

Male voice: Putting the motion and the emotion and the heatand weight and junk like that in the other one, you want tomake the...

Now, did it remain in the body you were moving, afterwards, too?

Male voice: Not unless I kept my attention out there.

Ah!

Male voice: This morning I was - I had a somatic and I keptputting it out in that other body too. And it'd stay outthere for a little while and then come back.

Mm-hm. Mm-hm. What is there we have to put in the other body?

Male voice: Sensation.

Do we have to put sensation in the other body?

Male voice: Well, we don't have to but it's something.

I was...

Male voice: ... to do.

Well, I know, but would that be bad?

Male voice: No. Heavens no.

Well, would it be bad to have no sensation?

Male voice: Well, I don't suppose it'd be any too good, butit'd be all right. It's just ...

To live forever with no sensation.

Male voice: Well, that wouldn't be any good, no.

That wouldn't be any good! Well, how interesting! Well, nowwhat would you do knowing that?

Female voice: You mean we're going to start with him allover again?

Yeah, what would you do now, knowing that?

Female voice: Well, I thought we ought to take what you just did...

We found out it wasn't good enough just to shoot it downthere; he had to look at this body and find out what it wasdoing in order to make the other body do it.

Female voice: Yeah.

What additional process would you use then? Come on, whatwould you do with this pc now that you know this? What doyou know?

Female voice: Well, apparently the way to exteriorize onthis thing - there's actually a point that he slips the realbody into the position of the mock-up.

Yeah, but what - what was he doing there?

Female voice: Did not get more and more perceptics into themock-up.

Ah. And what perceptic? Don't answer this sixty-four-dollarquestion.

Female voice: Could only be somatic or muscular distress.

What's holding him in that body? Let's get hot, huh? What'sholding him in that body? Come on. What's nailing him there?

Female voice: It's interest, I think.

Nuh-uh! Come on! Come on, let's get hot. He's sitting rightthere and we'll - not pulling any punches around here. Idon't have to say this is an evaluation for him; he doesn'teven hear this, and if it's wrong, it's wrong.

Female voice: Mm-hm.

In case I'm not right. Well, what's holding him in that body?

Male voice: Think.

Don't look! If you're good enough at looking, you can tell.

Male voice: I figure I know.

What?

Male voice: Feeling.

Yeah? What kind of feeling?

Male voice: Pain.

Yeah? Pain? Okay, and what else?

Male voice: It looks for me.

Come on, what's holding him?

Female voice: Perception.

Yes, of course, but perception of what?

Female voice: The MEST universe.

Hm! Hm! Do you mind - do you mind if I use a three-letterword in mixed company?

Female voice: Use four if you like.

When they say sensation...

Female voice: Yes?

.. they mean one thing only. If you could get a preclearto mock up the completeness of sensation of the second dynamic.

Female voice: Oh, sure.

.. himself - this is why Freud got off on this mad race, see.

Female voice: Yeah.

He would all of a sudden realize he didn't need a body.

Female voice: That's right.

He could mock the sensation up. Well, every once in a whilea pc will hang up on this one. They'll really hang up onthat thing royally. It doesn't mean that there's a thingwrong with their second dynamic as a body or their sexualbehavior or anything else. It's just a fact that they havehit this particular computation and then they hit it hard,see? So, it would be - it would be a rather delicate affairfor a girl to process this preclear in this mid-Victoriansociety. But the fact of the case is that the sensation ofwhich he speaks would be the missing sensation in themock-up in the body. And if you leave bodies - oh-oh! Oh-oh!You might not hook up those lines again, see? And if younever hooked up the lines again, and so forth.

All right, now, we talk about pain. He's saying pain - he'sgoing to hit downscale from an anxiety about any. Becauseall pain is, is condensed sex.

Female voice: Mm-hm.

And all sex is, is just condensed emotion.

Female voice: Mm-hm.

All emotion is, is condensed looking. And you've got it.So, let's just take a look at this as a combination.

Now, let me tell you something in passing about "Mr. OldSecond Dynamic." The second dynamic starts with apostulate; this is why it is serious on a case, but it'sreally not any - it's not near as serious as eating. Boy,don't ever lose sight of that. Don't ever in your ownthirst for sensation ever lose sight of the fact that sexis secondary to eating.

Let's take this imponderable case of the rat. It has beendiscovered by modern science - I often wondered where theykept "modern science" or who he was. But, he must be a nicechap. Anyway, everybody refers to him - Mr. Modern... Thatupset you?

Male voice: What? What you said?

What I was saying about the...

Male voice: No, carry on.

Okay.

Now, modern science has discovered, after vast observation,that mice when fed badly (they say fed on carbohydratesexcessively and no protein), procreate wildly in spite ofthe fact that they obviously have a less of a food supplythan formerly, making the big imponderable. Well, theimponderable is, is animals can't help but survive, sothey're not going to try very hard to survive, so they'vegot to survive anyway, so you've got to work like mad tosurvive. It's just all messed up, you see? The computationis an identity computation. Okay.

Now, let's look at this problem of why mice - we'll justaccept that modern science has discovered this; I foundthis is a very unreliable thing to do - will procreate withpoor food or no food. Well, that's not a riddle; we up andanswered that. It has ceased to be - needn't puzzle Mr.Modern Science anymore. Because it's simply this: Sex isthe answer to "Can't survive as an organism." And "Can'tsurvive as an organism" depends upon two things: pain andfood. Too much pain - no survival; too little food - no survival.

Sex comes in when the rations run out. Remember that,because you'll peg that on a track just boom! And you'llalways want to find on a pc with whom you're having anydifficulty at all exteriorizing, you'll find they allsuffer from the same thing, which is lack of interest, andthis in essence is some or other level of apathy - high orlow apathy. You see there apathy at various levels, butit's still apathy and that's still a no interest, whichmeans no anchor points - "pain," interest" and "anchorpoints" are simultaneous in meaning. All right.

What - what happens? You - if a man is interested in sensation,he is already trying to be an effect, but this is onlybecause he found he's been an effect. So if he's been tooserious an effect - too seriously an effect - then after that, he decides that he can't survive. Simultaneously with"can't survive" is "must procreate."

So, the age of puberty is the age where the young boy, theyoung girl takes a nose dive. And you'll find them hung upon the track there more often than not. Because that is socomplete a computation and is so chronic, it's so inherentin structure, that all he has to do is have sexualsensation turn on and he recognizes that he "can't survive.

His first taste of death is his first taste of futureprocreation. See? I mean that's - it's the substitute. Sexcomes in when the rations run out. And when the body getsexcessively tired sometimes, it'll become sexuallystimulated. If it becomes ill one way or the other, itcould become sexually stimulated.

It's quite interesting how many things could happen thatcould create sexual stimulation. And they all sum up tothis one thing: "Can't survive." Now, it even goes furtherthan that: They run off the "Can't survive." Now if they'vegone into a libido cessation, they can't survive twice.They can't survive twice, so they go into the third. Theygo into dynamic seven. See? Dynamic seven shows up.

You can't survive as yourself and then you can t survive asa progeny and then they feel they can't survive as a spiriteither And the magnitude of gain a case can make issomething that you would find it hard to appreciate untilyou'd run part of the race yourself. The magnitude of gainis fantastic; it's enormous! And we'd have to almostrecover on the whole track principle, those "can'ts.""Can't survive" is "Can't survive as a body." "Can'tsurvive" - "Can't survive as progeny in the future;' and then the last "Can't survive" is "Can't survive as sex." So when a fellow's libido runs out he turns to religion! See that?

And that's why when you mark down a mystic, when you markdown a person who is deep in religion, you can immediatelyreach back to the love affair that failed. Just like that!It's just automatic response - pam!

That's the way it goes, see? He all of a sudden says,"Well, her name was Gertrude." Only he probably doesn't;he's probably at that moment in a frozen silence. You won'tsee any emotion out of him. If you want to see someimmediate emotion, get him to reaching and withdrawing fromGertrude, and Gertrude reaching and withdrawing from him.And you'll see a little change on the case immediately.

Many a man has been processed by artificial techniques,which is to say subjective techniques, just endlessly,without showing a great deal of change. He's lost a fewsomatics and he's gone this way or that, until somebody allof a sudden one day says, "Reach for Gertrude." He doesn'thave to spill grief on Gertrude. What we've got to do isrehabilitate his looking, at which time we'll rehabilitatehis feeling. You could actually stretch out his distance tolook by rehabilitating Gertrude. Where? Let's put her wayout on the horizon. And let's keep putting her way out onthe horizon. Interesting technique. It'll spill a littlepain, a little griet all sorts of things.

If you actually run into somebody who can only now surviveas a spirit - because this will foul him up like mad becausehe's gone into artificial spiritualism. He isn't himself.The thetan is not only gone now, the thetan is gone as abody, gone as progeny and now gone as a spirit, so he hasto waste admiration on other spirits. And you start himwasting Christ, and you start him wasting space or God, andhe's going to get some interesting results, more or less.

When somebody suddenly comes up and tells you that, well,the possibility there - we want to find out where he is.This is the gradient scale as you go down for a body: "Cansurvive as self - can't survive as self" "Can survive as sex(future children) - can't survive as sex (future children)."Now, there are a lot of little intersteps there he couldmake, but the next one you re really interested in is thebrass ring - seven. Because this is what's keeping him inhis body.

Lots of ways to do this: "Where's Gertrude?" We'll get intothose techniques that spring this fairly rapidly. But thisis what's happened to the case.

Now, what are these "Can't survives"? There's three "Can'tsurvives." Brother, when he can't even survive as a spirit,when he can't even be spiritual and still stay in a bodyand still make a go of it and so forth, he turns to Godwith a passion and an upset and so forth that is found onlyin insane asylums. Because that really is the last waste,because his God is space and that's all there is to it.He's trying to waste space. Interesting technique, by theway - wasting space, wasting gods. Okay, but that's asubjective technique.

What's wrong with such a case? There are dozens of ways youcould do this. But there's a well of apathy on every casethat is difficult. And I've often wondered if it's possibleto solve such a case, spilling some of the apathy. I'vetried now and then. I've been trying with cases justworking with them. There's a holdup on the case linethat - it just has to do with spilling a little apathy.

Apathy is lower than grief and it's more of a blockade thangrief. It's very easy to run apathy. I'll show you how torun apathy.

Run "Can't survive" out here four times; put it in fourplaces - just "Can't survive."